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Hyperlinks panel’s color buttons

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    • March 18, 2022 at 11:39 pm #14361240
      Tobias Wantzen
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      Hello everybody,

      can anybody tell me exactly what the various colors of the dots after the hyperlink in the hyperlink panel mean?

      Thanks in advance!
      Tobias

    • March 19, 2022 at 7:15 am #14361241
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
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      If you hover your cursor over the dots, you’ll see a tooltip that tells you the status.

      Green: Hyperlink is valid and reachable
      Red: Hyperlink is not valid (either it goes to a non-existent URL, or the hyperlink is malformed)
      Gray: I have occasionally seen these, it usually means ID can’t determine the status for some reason. A strange code is coming back from the destination’s web server, or, if all of them are gray, you don’t have an Internet connection.

      Sometimes you’ll see a gray envelope (email link) or gray page icon (page destination) too.

      aM

    • March 19, 2022 at 10:10 am #14361242
      Tobias Wantzen
      Participant

      Thanks, Anne-Marie. I was asking, because I’m testing a hyperlinks script I’m writing, and one of my test hyperlinks shows green although it doesn’t exist in the internet. So I was confused about the coloring.

      It’s a bit weird: The script added hyperlink is green (although this is wrong), but when I edit the hyperlink, it jumps to red. After exiting the edit it jumps to green again. So I think, this must be a bug …

      Thanks!
      Tobias

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