[opencms-dev] External Links

[Brian Stanfield]

My problem is that I'm not sure I know how External Links work.
 From what I could gather you link to them like you would to other files 
on the vfs and they then redirect you to the external adress stored 
within them.
Only that this doesn't work for me at all and I end up stuck on the file 
without it sending me towards the destination.

Am 08.11.2011 14:43, schrieb patric dosch:
> I do not understand your problem, not really :)
> The first is the redirect, you need no cms:link here, right?
> The title of the external page you'll be able to save in a string element and then display it?
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] Im Auftrag von Brian Stanfield
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. November 2011 14:32
> An: The OpenCms mailing list
> Betreff: Re: [opencms-dev] External Links
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I did change it to that, but the problem remains the exact same thing.
>
> Regards, Brian
>
> Am 08.11.2011 12:57, schrieb patric dosch:
>> Hey Brian,
>>
>> i think you should use OpenCmsVarLink =
>> http://opencms-wiki.org/OpenCmsVarLink
>>
>> Regards, Patric
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
>> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] Im Auftrag von Brian
>> Stanfield
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. November 2011 11:53
>> An: The OpenCms mailing list
>> Betreff: [opencms-dev] External Links
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> Could someone give me a quick explanation on how to use External Links?
>> I tried using them and researched how to do it, but nothing seems to work as intended.
>>
>> At the moment, there is a OpenCmsString Element with a LinkGallery Layout in the xsd schema to select the link.
>> Usage within the site comes in two forms:
>>
>> 1.) A redirect using<c:redirect url="${redirectto}" />   with
>> ${redirectto} being a<cms:link>pathtofile</cms:link>   element (doing
>> the cms:link within the redirect url led to some issues so I had to
>> sidestep
>> that...)
>> 2.) A simple link such as<a href="<cms:link>pathtofile</cms:link>">
>> (Which brings me to a side question of how I can display the name of
>> the External Link file in a page)
>>
>> Both methods just send me to something along the lines of
>> /opencms/_external_links/www.opencms.com
>> or, should I not use the<cms:link>   to /_external_links/filename
>>
>> What am I doing wrong or what am I overlooking?
>>
>> Thanks:
>>     - Brian Stanfield
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