topic Re: Single quote (apostrophe) in hyperlink in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Single quote (apostrophe) in hyperlink

BillyBuerger — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:41:20 GMT

We're trying to hyperlink in ArcPro to some documents that have a single quote/apostrophe in the path. Clicking the link gives the error...

Any attempt to escape the character doesn't change the error. I've tried double single quotes and %27 and it still gives the same error. The fact that %27 gives the same error suggests that it reads the urlencode correctly and makes it a single quote before passing it on to whatever causes this error. Anyone know how to get around this? The obvious work around is to rename the folders to not have single quotes in them. But single quotes are valid characters in normal urls. So this seems to be a bug in the way Pro handles this.

Re: Single quote (apostrophe) in hyperlink

JoshuaBixby — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 02:47:08 GMT

I am seeing the same behavior, and I can't seem to get around it, definitely seems like a bug to me.

Re: Single quote (apostrophe) in hyperlink

BillyBuerger — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 13:58:33 GMT

Thanks for confirming that it wasn't just me.

Re: Single quote (apostrophe) in hyperlink

TedKowal — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:57:19 GMT

I am assuming you are using python ..... using this method has sometimes help me when I get weird errors from urlencode(s) ...

convert to JSON using json.dumps() and then use urlencode or b64encode to make it safe for use in an url....

18.2. json — JSON encoder and decoder — Python 2.7.16 documentation

Don't know it it is worth trying .... I don't use ArcPro due to it not accepting an access geodatabase. Slowly learning QGIS because shapefiles, file geodatabases or SDE are not an option for the company I work at and had similar %27 issues... in scripting for QGIS....

Re: Single quote (apostrophe) in hyperlink

BillyBuerger — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:42:23 GMT

No scripting involved. Just populating a text field with a link to a document. Something like this...

<a href="file:///\\server\share\documents (PDF's)\target.pdf">Target Document</a>

If the path doesn't have a single quote in it, it works. If it does, it fails.

Re: Single quote (apostrophe) in hyperlink

KoryKramer — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:21:56 GMT

I just logged [BUG-000121514: When an apostrophe is included in a filename, clicking on the link from a pop-up returns a script error: Expected ')']

You can contact technical support if you need to be attached to follow the status.

Thank you.

Re: Single quote (apostrophe) in hyperlink

NickHarvey — Thu, 13 May 2021 19:23:17 GMT

Just updated to Pro 2.8.0. Document hyperlinks are opening as expected but single quotes are giving me trouble. Anyone else having this issue?

-Nick

Re: Single quote (apostrophe) in hyperlink

NickHarvey — Fri, 21 May 2021 13:04:58 GMT

BUG-000140068

Re: Single quote (apostrophe) in hyperlink

NickHarvey — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:25:14 GMT

This appears to be working at 2.8.2 best I can tell