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All URL data fields in all modules must accept relative links

In the Live-Slider module the user is forced to provide an absolute URL in the data field associated with a given slide. This is clearly a design and/or programming defect because it screws-up the navigation of a website moved/cloned to a new location such as localhost. Obviously, hard-coded URLs should never be used to reference resources local to a DNN instance.

In my case, I want to enter a relative URL like this
/immobilien
but doing so displays the message
"Slide #1: Please enter valid link, Link should be start with "http://" or "https://" or "//""
I am therefore blocked and have no choice but to enter an absolute URL. Not good.

Daniel Bigelow Daniel Bigelow
published 01/11/2019 10:44

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  • Steve McKenna
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Mandeep Singh
replied 01/16/2019 09:23

I agree. I'll check with our development team if there's a reason why relative links were not supported. Otherwise, we'll support this in next update. 

Steve McKenna
replied 05/26/2020 23:17

I am having the same issue. I have a dev site, didnt realize the links were absolute and it took me to my main site. Unaware that I wasnt in the developing environment, I started making changes to my live website. When I tried to change the links, you can only call for absolute links not relative, 

Last Activity 05/26/2020 23:17