Hello, I have a site collection on SharePoint 2007 that will not save a URL if I enter a local site as an absolute link. SharePoint continuously changes the link to a relative link as long as the site is a local site. I DO NOT want SharePoint to automatically change the link for me though. The top level of this site gets content deployed to other sites around the globe daily. So in this case when someone clicks the link I want the user to be directed to the corporate site, not to a relative link which doesn't exist on the destination. In other words, the link is broken once it gets content deployed. The relative link works fine on the corporate (main) site; it is all of the global sites that have problems with a broken link after content deployment runs. As many problems that I have had with content deployment though, this is not a content deployment problem. It is a matter of how SharePoint saves the link. Most of our links, even to the corporate site, were entered as absolute links. This worked fine a few months ago. However, in December I installed the October CU (just a few days before December CU was released). I think this is what broke it, and I just didn't realize it until now because we have not had a need to add links since then. Our MOSS version # (at all sites): 12.0.0.6548 In the logs I see: Cannot open "/http://sp.blah.blah/Projects_and_Reports": no such file or folder. I did not type the preceding slash before http though. Does anyone have an idea on how to get around the problem? In my opinion this is a bug that was probably introduced with a hotfix. Thanks, Eric

Hi, Thanks to share your post. For the issue, I think it’s really a version bug. The SharePoint 2007 may have this problem. Please try to install the latest Cumulative Update. And this problem doesn’t exist in SharePoint 2010 anymore. Hope this could help you! Leo

Hi, Thanks to share your post. For the issue, I think it’s really a version bug. The SharePoint 2007 may have this problem. Please try to install the latest Cumulative Update. Hope this could help you! Leo

Leoyi, Thank you for your response. I installed the latest hotfix on a test system and unfortunately it did not help. If I try to save an absolute URL in the navigation for a site that is local then SharePoint automatically changes it to a relative link. Then when content deployment runs the link is broken because the site does not exist on the destination. I believe this is a bug!! Thanks, Eric

Hi Leoyi, Have you installed FEB CU 2011? If not I suggest you to go for it. I hope this will help you out. Thanks, Rahul Rashu

Rashu, I have installed the April CU with no resolution to this problem. -Eric

Leoyi Sun, Will you please explain how this is considered an answer? I consider an answer as a resolution to the problem. I stated in my post that "it did not help" when installing the latest CU. I would prefer to see an answer that provides some sort of work around or resolution. Thanks, Eric

> Will you please explain how this is considered an answer? I had already unmarked that post as an answer before seeing the quoted post from you. Our Microsoft friends sometimes seem to be marking posts as answers because there is no movement in the thread for a few days which is unfortunate. (The logic is that if there is no response the original poster has no further interest in getting an answer but in this case the marking came a day after you had kept the thread alive with "I have installed the April CU with no resolution to this problem" so it does seem rather odd). MS personnel are human and just like all of us occasionally make mistakes so don't be too hard on them. another Moderator (who has also misread posts on occasion)SP 2010 "FAQ" (mainly useful links): http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/default.aspx WSS3/MOSS FAQ (FAQ and Links) http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com/default.aspx Both also have links to extensive book lists and to (free) on-line chapters

I'm sorry; I didn't intend to come across rude. The thing is that I have seen a lot of post that, as you mentioned, get marked as answered simply because there is no movement. I don't think this adds much benefit to the forums. In fact I think it takes away value if you search the forums for similar problems, see that someone had the same problem, get excited thinking "yay it is answered too", just to review it and find that no resolution was actually given. It might help stats to say 99% of questions are answered, but stats don't mean much if forums marked as answered don't actually contain a relevant answer. Also, if a MS developer decided to look for bugs reported in forums then I would think that posts marked as answered would easily get overlooked. Anyway, I like using the forums and I just don't want to see them get misused or else they lose their relevance. Of course saying all of this is not relevant to the question I originally asked but I'm not sure where else to put it. So getting back to the issue (I need to put something relevant here :) ), does anyone have the October 2010 CU installed or the April CU installed to verify that an absolute link to a local site will not save in the navigation? When I try this on my live system or my test system then it automatically gets changed to a relative link. Thanks,