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re: Changing Links List In SharePoint 2007 To Open In New Browser Window

kdrysdale — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:55:11 GMT

Joe,

You need to live in the real world! You have obviously never designed real websites for the real world, it's so easy to jump on the W3C bandwagon and quote their rubbish! Just checked out you site, quite a few external pages open in new windows. Hypocrite Alert!!!

re: Changing Links List In SharePoint 2007 To Open In New Browser Window

Daniele Bergo — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:14:03 GMT

Hi guys

I used this

javascript:void window.open('mypage.aspx?','_blank');

It works!

SharePoint 2007 - Opening Links in a New Window

Julian Stevens — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:38:46 GMT

SharePoint 2007 - Opening Links in a New Window

re: Changing Links List In SharePoint 2007 To Open In New Browser Window

Renee — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:45:11 GMT

the "shift" "rt click" is not working for the MY Links to open in a new window... is there a setting somewhere that turned that off?

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Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:18:00 GMT

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re: Changing Links List In SharePoint 2007 To Open In New Browser Window

Kiki — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:12:46 GMT

I disagree with making the links automatically open the link an a new window. And totally agree with the standard. The user already has the ability to open a link in a new window or tab by right clicking on the link and selecting new window or tab from the shortcut menu. So usability doesn't suffer, but it does force users to know this small bit of information. And the standard is set this way because of usability AND ACCESSIBILITY. (A point every other commenter above me missed.) Screen readers read through the code to tell vision impaired users what is on the page. So reading target="_blank" really makes a lot of extra junk for vision impaired users to sort through. So my feeling is if you have no impairment and you are too lazy to do a right button click, blindfold yourself, hook yourself up to a screen reader AND try answering customer service calls with the customer talking in one ear and the screen reader reading information back to you in the other. Then navigate the page. On external sites, you should follow the standard, you do NOT know who your users are--only the demographic your company typically appeals to. For Intranet sites you should follow the majority of standards because you only know who your users are that day, not in the future. My place of employment that provides customer service has had vision impaired employees working customer service. The ADA requires reasonable accommodation--and considering this is the standard practice, it is a reasonable accommodation. Wouldn't it really suck if you had to go in after the fact to change all of your links and THEN retrain the rest of your workforce? Maybe your IS department needs to step out of IS and take a look at other departments, namely HR and inform them of the issue. Then maybe they can tell you if you will be changing all of your code down the road.

re: Changing Links List In SharePoint 2007 To Open In New Browser Window

Lili — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:54:55 GMT

Thanks a lot!!! You made my day!

re: Changing Links List In SharePoint 2007 To Open In New Browser Window

James — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:53:19 GMT

I totally agree with the author too. If you don't open an external link in a new window it is difficult to 'unwind' their way back to the orignal site - especially if they have clicked several links on the external site. Usability suffers and in this case telling the users that you followed some standard will fall on deaf ears. If the standard is as Joe explained, it should be changed.

re: Changing Links List In SharePoint 2007 To Open In New Browser Window

Chris — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:45:28 GMT

Thanks for this information - this did the trick!

re: Changing Links List In SharePoint 2007 To Open In New Browser Window

Matt — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:30:51 GMT

I have an NO CODE OPTION...I haven't fully tested this in all areas but it's working for me so far.

In the Issue Tracking list there's a column type called "Hyperlink with formatting and constraints for publishing". This column type allows you to define whether the link will open in the site or "in new window".

1. Create a new List using Issue Tracking.

2. Create a column using type "Hyperlink with formatting and constraints...."

3. Remove all the other columns (Title and Category can't be removed)

4. Change the Title column..in Default value put an "x" or something else.

5. Create a View showing only the Link column.

Now you can add a webpart anywhere on your site using this list and View.

I'm using SP2008 with MOSS 3...I'm sure that makes a difference.