Stumbled across this weird behaviour when I was working on the search for our site.
When I was using the search on our site, i would get no matches for results that I knew definitely existed. When I retyped it, the input field history showed my search in a different font.
Typing the search from scratch would return the correct results. But when I clicked the history item with the weird font, it would still show no results.
What caused this to happen? I don't have any other language enabled on my pc...
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I am encountering a really strange behavior with Google Chrome.
In the Google Chrome Address Bar (where you can type in search term or URL), it will remember the history of the search and pages. However, when I run a "clear all history." It cleared almost everything except a few URLs and a few searches. This makes those few histories in the address bar "undeletable".
Since it is synchronizing this across my devices as well, the undeletable entries (less than 6 entries) also appear in my mobile phone Chrome as well.
Here's what I've done (with my Google Account logged in using Chrome)
Clear history in Chrome with time range All time and select Browsing history & Cookies and other site data
Go to myactivity.google.com/myactivity and click on Delete activity by and choose All time, and for products, I only checked Chrome, Search.
Restart the browser
At this point, when I type something into the Chrome address bar, the undeletable entry still shows up.
Any idea what am I missing?
This shouldn't be this difficult, but I couldn't figure it out and did a lot of searches online, cannot really find a solution to this.
Any help will be fantastic!
OK,
I figured it out. I'll leave my answer here so other people who encounter this similar problem know what's going on.
Basically, the Google Chrome address bar will auto-complete history AND any bookmark that you have.
So that means when I clear all "history" (which it did clear successfully), but if I have it in my bookmark, it will still show up in the address bar auto-complete option.
So regardless of how many times you clear history (which once is enough), as long as you have it "bookmarked", it will show up. There's no easy way to tell if the suggestion is a "bookmark" or a "history".
If you are in the same situation, I hope this answer will help you.
Thank you!
I'm not really sure how to ask this question, or whether it's even possible. I have previously built an android app that searched for data within a specific webpage and returned the data to the app. This app worked perfectly for over a year until the website in question performed a site wide session of prettying itself up, and in doing so, inadvertently breaking my app.
Within the new designed website, a dropdown menu has been added, which has several selections:
'Show20News',
'Show50News',
'Show100News',
'Show250News',
'Show500News'
The default selection is 'Show20News', and what I want is to make a selection of 'Show500News' instead. However, I want to append the selection to the URL, rather than manually selecting it. I have contacted the websites web team who just can't seem to understand what I am asking for, hence my visit here.
The website link:
https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news?tab=news-explorer&results=500&indices=AXX&sources=RNS&period=daily
What I'd like to achieve is adding the 'Show500News' selection from the dropdown menu to the end of the above URL, to avoid the manual process of getting the same results.
If you take a look at the source code of the link above, you will notice that there is no code that represents the possible selections. It is this that has me stumped. If possible I'm hoping that someone maybe able to nudge me in the right direction, or at least tell me if and why it's not possible. Thanks.
Hello StackOverflow community,
I've just started having an issue with hyperlinks stored within an MS-Access table not behaving as expected.
I have a small database which, among other things, records links to documents hosted on a company Sharepoint site. Until a few days ago, all was working fine with both the database and the hyperlinks.
For some reason, within the last few days, whenever I (or any of my users) click on these hyperlinks through an Access form (or me clicking directly from the tables), I am getting strange behavior:
Clicking the link does open a new instance of the default browser, as desired. And that browser does navigate to the company Sharepoint site. But none of the links actually open the specific document that they are intended to point to.
Instead, all links are bringing up a general file/folder menu within the Sharepoint site. It is almost as if these links point to a non-existent file within an existing folder.
The very strange part is, if I "edit" any of the hyperlinks in my database, and simply select and copy the "address" text from within the edit hyperlink window, I will always immediately pull up the correct desired document if just paste the address directly into a new browser window.
I would have thought that this type of cutting/pasting would necessarily be equivalent to simply clicking the link. But that is obviously not the case.
I feel like I can safely rule out the possibility that any changes to the Sharepoint site itself would be causing my issue with simply clicking the links (otherwise cutting/pasting the addresses would not bring up the correct documents), but I have to admit I am simply stumped as to why just clicking the hyperlinks directly used to work, but no longer does.
I don't believe there is any code or other relevant information that might be helpful that I am neglecting to include, but would be eager to provide any clarifications/etc if anyone has any idea as to what might be happening here.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or suggestions!
~JQN
EDIT: I had deleted this question because the issue described above had simply stopped happening. I was unable to explain why, but was also unable to reproduce the issue again after a certain point within a day or two of making the original post.
Since then, the issue has returned. I've been able determine the following:
As described in my note below, when I am getting this odd link behavior, I do NOT get the standard warning from MS-Access indicating that hyperlinks may be harmful, etc.
Strangely, simply opening up a file dialog/file picker and then navigating through that dialog to any location on the (sync'ed) Sharepoint site seems to make the problem go away. I do not need to actually select or open any location on Sharepoint, simply navigating within the sync'ed folder structure seems to do the trick.
Once this happens, all links behave as intended again (ie. they open the correct linked file directly instead of landing on the root folder page). They MS-Access hyperlink warning returns as well. The file/link behavior will remain in that state for several days. Only after, I'd estimate, a week or more of inactivity since the file dialog was last run will the issue return.
FURTHER EDIT: New update...Enough time has passed so that the issue is recurring again. As suspected, links to pages outside of Sharepoint are not affected, and open as expected without issue. Once again, the standard Microsoft hyperlink warning dialog is not coming up for any links.
Obviously, now that I've found the work-around with the file dialog, it's easy enough for me to fix the issue when it arises. I'm hoping that this rings a bell with somebody, though, and perhaps one of you could point me in the right direction for a more complete fix for my users.
Thanks again for any help with this!
YET ANOTHER EDIT: Ok....based upon all the things I've learned in the last couple of weeks (as captured in this post and the comments below), I was about to delete this question and re-post it as "Why is Sharepoint redirecting my URL requests from MS-Access?" As I tried to search the forum to make sure that that question hasnt already been asked, I stumbled across some info that I think gets at the underlying issue:
It looks like this is related to the (very opaque) way that Office processes URL requests. It apparently doesn't simply open the document at the specified link, it first "pre-tests" (I suppose that's the right word) the URL by sending a "Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery" request first.
Apparently, it is possible for Sharepoint to somehow not like the particulars of that MOPD request, and if that happens, then Sharepoint redirects to the file directory page -- and that directory page ends up being opened in the browser instead of the intended link/document.
Again, this only happens sometimes and not others. When it does happen, I've found a clumsy workaround that will correct the issue for about a week or so. I can't reproduce the issue during that week, I just have to wait for the workaround to expire (I obviously don't fully understand why my clumsy workaround works).
It doesn't seem possible to manipulate the particulars of the MOPD request. If possible, I'd love to be able to dispense with MOPD entirely, since I want all the files I'm linking to via Access to be opened as read-only anyway. Unfortunately, I don't think that that is possible either.
I've found some info on this in another SO thread HERE. I still am not quite at the point where I feel I'm ready to submit an answer to this question, but I have some ideas as to what sorts of things may function as an acceptable workaround.
It would be helpful if anyone had any ideas as to how I might be able to reproduce the issue on demand, rather than simply waiting another week for whatever keys/cookies/settings/etc to expire again. I'd need to implement any possible solutions entirely on the Access side of things if possible, rather than on the Sharepoint/server side. Thanks again for any suggestions!
I'm posting this as an answer now, but will avoid accepting it until I've had a chance to verify that it actually works.
I am inserting some code that will run on DB startup. It will open a (an invisible) form that has an Access WebBrowser control included. I'll have that control navigate to a specific file on the Sharepoint site. I believe that it is actually this action that somehow causes the link problems to resolve for a week of so.
This form will run silently in the background, navigate to the sharepoint file location, and then close. This should hopefully refresh whatever characteristics of the MODP request that are present when the links work properly (and are absent while they aren't working properly).
In essence, I'm hoping this approach will have the effect of resetting my (approximately) one week window of desired link functionality to start anew each time the database is opened. In other words, I'm thinking that this will work, although I still don't fully understand why.
Wish me luck!
;)
I have a vb.net web project that contains some dynamically filled tables. I recently changed how this data is calculated, and now it is not being displayed properly. There are many web tables being nested inside of each other, and I suspect that I messed up something with how those tables are being nested. I'm still quite new to web development, so I'm having some trouble tracking down where the issue is originating from.
I've learned that I can view the source code for my webpage while I'm debugging it in a browser by right clicking in the browser and selecting something like 'View Page Source'. This is very helpful for visualizing how various tables are nested inside each other, and has helped me fix a couple issues already. However, I've noticed that the dynamically created content doesn't seem to appear in this source anywhere.
For example, if I make a web table that loads usernames from a sql table and displays them, searching for a given username in the source will return 0 matches, even if I can see that username on the screen in the debug session I'm currently running.
A couple questions:
Why does my dynamic data not show up in the source?
Is there a way I can make it show up?
If not, what other ways are there to examine how the different tables are nested at runtime after I've filled my tables with data?
UPDATE:
I did some more research, and it looks like any code that is run on the server isn't visible in that piece of source that I mentioned above. I do have runat="server" set for my table, so maybe this answers my first question. I'm still lost on the other two though - and those are probably the more important questions in terms of helping me fix my problem I'm having.
Look into using a devloper console in your browser. Chrome's is good - just right-click a control on the page and 'inspect element' or press F12 and use the magnifying glass at the top left of the console to select the area of interest. Firefox also has one, and I think modern versions of IE do too. Makes it a lot easier to investigate styling, contents, etc. and may help you locate your usernames. If they're on the page then they'll definitely be in some source code somewhere, just possibly not in an obvious place.
Starting this afternoon, with the introduction of Chrome 31.0.1650.48, many web pages are displaying with random formatting errors. I've confirmed this on both Mac and Windows machines running the most recent auto-updated Chrome release (31.0.1650.48).
This problem is affecting thousands of pages, and to immediately rule out our server generating different information, you can try this to reproduce the problem:
Visit this Google cache page with Chrome version specified above: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nt70v_rn5BwJ:alaskanmalamute.rescueme.org/Idaho+&cd=61&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Notice what dogs are displayed and where they are.
Reload the page several times and observer closely.
You will randomly see one dog listing in the middle of the page, then two dog listings, the dogs move around, the menus around the dogs move around. Each time the page is reloaded Google is corrupting the source code in different ways, resulting in major formatting issues. (NONE of this code is generated outside of Google's cache.) All the pages on the www.RescueMe.Org have this problem, I'm using a cached page on Google's server in this article for an example since it proves it is not a server issue.
This sample page should remain the same every time, and be formatted correctly. It isn't.
Google Chrome (when viewing source) seems to be making random changes to the page (Chrome is dropping < or > at random places in source code) causing major display formatting issues.
Can someone reproduce this? Hopefully the folks at Google know about this issue, or someone here can escalate it with them?
Best wishes,
Jeff
can confirm - it seems to mostly be an issue with iFrames.
VisualForce iFrames in Salesforce break the entire layout.
Version 31.0.1650.48 on Mac, all addons removed.
In case someone else runs into this issue, I've narrowed it down somewhat. Chrome/31.0.1650.48 will randomly scramble the placement of tables on a page if the following two things happen:
1) You start the page like this: and do the reverse at the end: (doesn't have to be face=arial, any font setting or even just does the same thing).
2) Include some tags within the page containing various tables.
3) Magic! (not good magic, though) Each time your tables will randomly move about the page. Here's an example to try: http://server1c.rescueme.org/testb (Reload this page several times in in Chrome/31.0.1650.48 on Windows or Mac to see the tables jump around.)
THE SOLUTION: Start the page like this instead: and do the reverse at the end: (in other words, reverse placement of the center and font tags). Here's the "fixed" version of the page above with just those tags reversed: http://server1c.rescueme.org/testbfixed
While this is a Chrome bug, I feel this is worth keeping in Stack Overflow because this bug is breaking a lot of major sites, and programmers may want to know how to reprogram their HTML so those who have affected versions of Chrome won't have a confusing experience.
FYI... There are other ways to cause and solve this problem, but I'm trying to present here just the simplest method I found.