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Shubham_borole
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
September 29, 2017

AEM asset drag and drop to rte pathfield

  • September 29, 2017
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Hello,

While doing a drag and drop of an asset (pdf asset) into rte path field that contains special character like #, I see that the # is not encoded to %23 and so when I click on the link I get a 404

Below in Classic UI

For eg:

1. I drag and drop an asset "Test Book #1" into an rte pathfield. Press Ok. In browser elements I see it linked to  - /content/dam/path/Test Book #1.pdf. When I click on the link it shows a 404 (trying to go to localhost:6503/content/dam/path/Test%20Book%20#1.pdf)

2. In rte pathfield, I browse to the path and select the path of asset at '/content/dam/path/Test Book #1.pdf' . Press Ok.  In browser elements I see it linked to /content/path/Test%20Book%20%231.pdf. When I click ok th elink it opens up the pdf in browser (chrome).

In Touch UI

1. If I try to drag and drop the pdf asset to the path field it doesn't. (Doesn't add the path in pathfield at all. I drag the asset till the pathfield and when I unclick or try to drop nothing happens, pathfield is still empty )

2. If I browse to the path and select. In this case I see the same behavior as I saw in Classic UI mentioned in point 1 (the # is not encoded)

Does anyone see same issue? What can be a potential fix for this?

To check the js functionality where can I find the OOTB js for drag and drop that can be overlayed may be to try and encode the '#' (or other special characters) also?

Thanks

Shubham

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2 replies

Shubham_borole
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
October 4, 2017

Hello All,

Does anyone see this issue or have any insights?

Regards

smacdonald2008
Level 10
October 4, 2017

"While doing a drag and drop of an asset (pdf asset) into rte path field"

Dragging a PDF into a RTE is not recommended use case for RTE.

crisr1
Level 4
September 6, 2019

The issue discussed is a useful feature where users were able to build links from the RTE Link window by dragging and dropping assets such as PDF docs from the Classic UI Content Finder.

Adobe says that this is "not recommended" anymore. Seems it is not recommended because Touch UI lacks the feature.

October 12, 2017

You are basically creating an hyperlink where '#' is a valid character and so it is not getting encoded to its equivalent code.

For example:  www.abc.com/new#12

it will point to a div with id=12.

It will be better if you change # to some other character like 'no'.