Issue with DOCPROPERTY field inside LINK field

[sven]

Hello,

I have some Documents including LINK fields to Excelfiles.
To avoid the problem with absolute paths I followed Cindy Meisters tips
to use a DOCPROPERTY field inside the LINK field and a custom property
containing the directory of the file.

This works fine however there is an issue. When I refresh the LINK
field, my DOCPROPERTY field is replaced with a string containing the
content of my custom property. So I loose my dynamic behavior.

Perhaps someone knows the problem and could help me. I also hope Cindy
is finding my post. She seems to use this methode very often so I'm
sure she was confronted with this problem to.

Best regards,
Sven

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Your DOCPROPERTY field must be INSIDE the LINK field, replacing the part
that gives the link address path. It sounds as though it isn't.

Hello,

I have some Documents including LINK fields to Excelfiles.
To avoid the problem with absolute paths I followed Cindy Meisters tips
to use a DOCPROPERTY field inside the LINK field and a custom property
containing the directory of the file.

This works fine however there is an issue. When I refresh the LINK
field, my DOCPROPERTY field is replaced with a string containing the
content of my custom property. So I loose my dynamic behavior.

Perhaps someone knows the problem and could help me. I also hope Cindy
is finding my post. She seems to use this methode very often so I'm
sure she was confronted with this problem to.

Best regards,
Sven

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[sven]

Good morning

When pressing Alt+F9 my fileds are looking like this

{ LINK Excel.Sheet.8 "{ DOCPROPERTY Datenpfad }Tabelle.xls" \a \f 0
\p }

where Datenpfad is a custom property containing some string like
c:\\dokumente\\

 

[sven]

and my problem is that after refreshing the fields my fileds look like
this

{ LINK Excel.Sheet.8 "C:\\Dokumente\\Tabelle.xls" \a \f 0 \p }

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Sven

and my problem is that after refreshing the fields my fileds look like
this

{ LINK Excel.Sheet.8 "C:\\Dokumente\\Tabelle.xls" \a \f 0 \p }

with the cursor somewhere between the "...", hit SHIFT-F9 (just to see
that the field is indeed gone (that's what I meant in the German forum ).

2¢
Robert

 

[sven]

with the cursor somewhere between the "...", hit SHIFT-F9 (just to see

that the field is indeed gone (that's what I meant in the German forum ).

I will answer youn in the german forum to

well it is a little bit confusing...

I tried it with shif+f9 and he showed me the field in one of two link
fields...
the text I get from the DOCPROPERTY field was inside some greyed
brackets

after pressing undo and refreshing again it worked for none of them
it is really frustating