Bug #6083 Inline Help browser hyperlinks are dead

• Submitted: 14 Oct 2004 8:25
• Modified: 15 Oct 2004 16:39
• Reporter: Tony Antoniou
• Status: Can't repeat
• Category: MySQL Query Browser
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 1.0.8 beta
• OS: Windows (Win 2000)
• CPU Architecture: Any

[14 Oct 2004 8:25] Tony Antoniou

Description:
Clicking on any hyperlink in the inline help browser documentation creates a dead link. 
I.e. The browser reports the usual error reporting web page of 'The page cannot be displayed' error.
This is the same for all hyperlinks in the documentation.

I did a few tests in the doc root of the query browser directory and this is what I got:

(1) File for the FUNCTIONS documentation is 'mysqlqb_functions.html'  
Hyperlinks have bookmarks within the page, however it is calling 'index.html' instead of 'mysqlqb_functions.html'.

(2) File for the STATEMENTS documentation is 'mysqlqb_statements.html'
Hyperlinks have bookmarks within the page, however it is calling 'manual.html' instead of 'mysqlqb_statements.html'.

How to repeat:
Click on any hyperlink in the inline help browser for functions and statements.

Suggested fix:
Quick fix until next Query Browser version. Edit the html pages as follows: 

(1) FUNCTIONS documentation:
replace all occurring html bookmark link name from 'index.html' to reflect the proper filename of 'mysqlqb_functions.html'.

(2) STATEMENTS documentation:
replace all occurring html bookmark link name from 'manual.html' to reflect the proper filename of 'mysqlqb_statements.html'.

I also noticed in the functions html page that there are bookmark links that don't belong to the page and have a different html pages related to it.  The doc directory do not have these additional html pages.
Some bookmark links do not also work in the statements html page.

[14 Oct 2004 17:19] MySQL Verification Team

I was able for to open the online help's links.

[14 Oct 2004 19:04] Tony Antoniou

Hi Miguel,

Are you using version 1.0.8 beta?  I can clearly see that the html links point to different pages that are not in the doc directory.  Do you have index.html and manual.htm in the docs directory?

Regards,

[14 Oct 2004 19:49] MySQL Verification Team

Help Online Working on Query Browser 1.0.8 beta

Attachment: help-online.PNG (image/png, text), 81.65 KiB.

[14 Oct 2004 19:51] MySQL Verification Team

Hi Tony,

Yes I tested with 1.0.8 Beta (installed on default place) and you
can see the attached picture the link for C API displayed
correctly.

[15 Oct 2004 14:50] Tony Antoniou

Hi Miguel,

Sorry, I didn't mean from there.  It's when you open the 'Syntax' help on the bottom right hand side of the software.  The documents in there are offline, i.e in the root 'doc' folder of the application.

Regards,
Tony

[15 Oct 2004 16:39] MySQL Verification Team

Hi Tony,

Thank you for your note, however I was able also for to get the
help in the Syntax help. There are in my doc directory 4 files.

[15 Oct 2004 17:11] Tony Antoniou

Hi Miguel,

The information comes up, however when you click on the bookmarked hyperlinks, you get 'The page cannot be displayed' error.  This is the problem.  It's not a crucial problem as you can quite easily work around it, but it is a bug.

Regards,
Tony

[31 Oct 2006 4:19] Zuoling Xia

There are only 3 .html files under the 'Doc' directory of the MySqlQueryBrowser, and the links within these html documents are dead.

This is very frustrating when I want to click some of the links mentioned in the page.

I don't know why this problem is still present now. Please some responsible guy go to fix it.