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Pro Hyperlink breaks with special characters

MatthewDriscoll

We have paths and file names with special characters: L:\Path\MATT'S ADDN BLK 1,2,&3.TIF. I know this is a terrible thing to do, but it was done long ago before my time here. My guess is it is due to the special characters.

The paths are stored in an attribute and I am using that as a hyperlink in a custom popup. The ones which do not have special characters of course open fine. But I get the following error below on the ones that do. Hitting Yes does nothing.

This is not a problem in using the ArcMap hyperlink (lighting bolt).

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MatthewDriscoll

BUG-000127258

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MatthewDriscoll

BUG-000127258

XanderBakker

Hi Matthew Driscoll ,

The image tag with the file link will work and display the image, but when using the same link in the href of an anchor it fails. So IMHO something that needs fixing in ArcGIS Pro. See code below:

<SPAN class="keyword token">var</SPAN> file <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="token function">Replace</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>$feature<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>Plat_HL<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"'"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"%27"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
file <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="token function">Replace</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>file<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"&"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"%26"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
file <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="token function">Replace</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>file<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">" "</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"%20"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
file <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="token function">Replace</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>file<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">","</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"%2C"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>

<SPAN class="keyword token">return</SPAN> '<SPAN class="operator token"><</SPAN>a href<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN>"file<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN><SPAN class="operator token">/</SPAN><SPAN class="comment token">//' + file + '"><img src="file:///' + file + '" width="250"></a>';</SPAN><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

Which leads to showing the image in the pop-up...

.. but clicking on it will fail:

XanderBakker

Hi Matthew Driscoll and Dan Patterson ,

I just did a little test and although I have the same issue with the link, the image does show in the pop-up (using the original path without any encoding). However, when you click on the image or the link, it will produce the error. I tried to use the UrlEncode function in Arcade (as you can see at the wonderful text next to "CreateHyperlink", but this does not work either. I even include the "file:///" before the path and that did not work either.

Kory Kramer‌; do you know how to avoid the error message?

Here is the error message (in Spanish)

MatthewDriscoll

Testing this more I found the path works fine within the popup. But still cannot figure out a way to hyperlink correctly.

MatthewDriscoll

Thanks Dan! Unfortunately Python is not an option in Pro popups.

DanPatterson_Retired

you are using arcade, path delimiter replace is for python, no clue how arcade handles paths and unsavory characters

maybe Xander Bakker‌ knows

MatthewDriscoll

Thanks Dan! This fixes the problem.

Edit: Seemed like an expression would be the fix, I still get the same error.

Replace($feature.Plat_HL,"\\", "/")

DanPatterson_Retired

Depends on how the strings are quoted. How software interprets a path is another issue, but even microsoft recommends against space and punctuation. Unix is more forgiving

p <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> r<SPAN class="string token">'L:\Path\MATT'</SPAN>S ADDN BLK <SPAN class="number token">1</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">2</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN><SPAN class="operator token">&</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">3.</SPAN>TIF'    <SPAN class="comment token"># ---- single quote raw encoding</SPAN>
  File <SPAN class="string token">"<ipython-input-5-7dbd339e92b6>"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> line <SPAN class="number token">1</SPAN>
    p <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> r<SPAN class="string token">'L:\Path\MATT'</SPAN>S ADDN BLK <SPAN class="number token">1</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">2</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN><SPAN class="operator token">&</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">3.</SPAN>TIF'
                       <SPAN class="operator token">^</SPAN>
SyntaxError<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN> invalid syntax


p <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> r<SPAN class="string token">"L:\Path\MATT'S ADDN BLK 1,2,&3.TIF"</SPAN>     <SPAN class="comment token"># ---- double quote raw encoding</SPAN>

q <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> p<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>replace<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"\\"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"/"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

q
<SPAN class="string token">"L:/Path/MATT'S ADDN BLK 1,2,&3.TIF"</SPAN>   <SPAN class="comment token"># ---- safe anywhere</SPAN><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

MarkBockenhauer

The single quote is causing the script error. I don't know of a way to work around this in ArcGIS Pro, other than removing the single quote from the file names.

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