Preview from DCR editor != Webdesk Pro view

laj1

Not sure if this is a question or a rant, but here's my deal.

I'm using 5.5.2 on win2000.
Lets say I have a work area S with a subdirectory S/SM.
I have a template which generates S/SM/TOC.htm which is a tabel of contents (a page full of links)
for the bunch of PDFs which live in S/SM.

When I edit the DCR to modify the links in TOC, and I hit preview, the DCR Editor previews from S,
causing all my links (relative URLs, all assume that the PDFs live in CWD, since TOC lives in the same directory
with them) to break. But when I view TOC.htm from S/SM, the links are fine.

So, WHAT GIVES?!?!?!?!

Is preview not supposed to be a "Live" page?
maybe it shoudl ask for a reference directory.

Thanks for listening.
Len.

Len Jaffe
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Migrateduser

All previewing pages for a given template type are generated to the previewing directory for that template defined in templating.cfg. This is a major problem for relative links. One hack is to have the template detect that it is in preview mode and call itself to generate the correct output file, then return a redirect to the browser to that output file.