How can you include a link to a Plan in an Office Document?
I have a user who is trying to include a link to their RTC plan in a PowerPoint presentation. The link is of the form: https://server:9443/ccm/web/projects/PROJECT#action=com.ibm.team.apt.viewPlan&page=com.ibm.team.apt.web.ui.plannedItems&id=_uuid
When the link is clicked in PowerPoint, it gets translated to https://server:9443/ccm/auth/#action=com.ibm.team.apt.viewPlan&page=com.ibm.team.apt.web.ui.plannedItems&id=_uuid
I know this is an issue with Office products, but I was hoping someone here might have a suggestion that would allow them to include the URL, other than having to right-click and use Copy Hyperlink...
Thanks,
Jamie.
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Hi - I too have this issue - it often occurs with Word and I just tried PowerPoint. The issue is:
Please try the following workaround (working for me) - "URL encode" the RTC Plan's URL. I used below tool; scroll down a little to the section "URL Encoding Functions" http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
1. Clear the field, then paste the URL from Rational
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Jamie Berry
commented Mar 13 '17, 4:19 p.m.
I have tried this URL Encoding tool and it still isn't working for me. Thank you for the suggestion.
Jamie.
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I found that trying to encode the URL didn't work. It appears to really be a problem in how Windows is handling links that authenticate with Single Sign On products, which we use at our company. I am going to investigate more with our SSO team as the issue only occurs with links to CCM but not RQM and we have SSO on for both. The solution I found that does work requires a registry change and I would like to solve this without pushing a registry update to all our users. The MS Knowldge article that pointed me to the solution is: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/899927/you-are-redirected-to-a-logon-page-or-an-error-page-or-you-are-prompted-for-authentication-information-when-you-click-a-hyperlink-to-a-sso-web-site-in-an-office-document?cm_mc_uid=82164841234314900338982&cm_mc_sid_50200000=1491516102
Thanks Jamie.
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Do you want to open the link within PowerPoint? I don't have any problems when the link is redirected to the default browser.