When you use the text editor to insert a hyperlink in the text of a listing in SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and the hyperlink links to a file, the hyperlink does not appear (895093)

SYMPTOMS

Consider the following scenario in Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. You insert a hyperlink in the text of a listing on the portal site. The hyperlink links to a file that is located on the local hard disk or on a network file share. When you view the listing, the hyperlink does not appear.

To insert the hyperlink, you perform the following procedure:

You click Open Text Editor to open the text editor.
You type the text for the hyperlink, you select the text, and then you click the Insert Hyperlink button.
In the Hyperlink dialog box that is displayed in Microsoft Internet Explorer, you click File in the Type box, and then you type the URL of the file that you want to link to in the URL box.
You click OK two times.

When you view the listing, you notice that the text that you specified for the hyperlink is not formatted as a hyperlink. You experience the following symptoms:

If you click the text that you specified for the hyperlink, you do not connect to the destination of the hyperlink.
If you view the source code of the Web page, you see that the HREF tag is missing from the text that you specified for the hyperlink. To view the source code of a Web page, click Source on the View menu.

CAUSE

For security reasons, the text editor in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 does not support URLs that use the File protocol. If you add a hyperlink that uses the File protocol, the HREF tag is removed when you close the text editor. Although the File option is displayed in the Type box of the Hyperlink dialog box in Internet Explorer, you cannot insert a hyperlink that uses the File protocol in the text of a listing in SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about how to work with listings in SharePoint Portal Server 2003, see the "Working with listings" topic in the "Working with areas" section of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Help. To view SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Help, click Help on the portal site Web page, or see the UsersHelp.chm file that is located in the Docs folder in the root directory of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 CD.