PUBURLPATH -- generate a relative URL for an attachment

Generate a relative URL for an attachment, or for a web or topic within the attachment database.

Parameters

Examples

• %PUBURLPATH% expands to /pub
• %PUBURLPATH{"icon_plus.png"}% expands to =%PUBURLPATH{"icon_plus.png"}%
• %PUBURLPATH{web="System"}% expands to /pub/System
• %PUBURLPATH{topic="System.MainFeatures"}% expands to /pub/System/MainFeatures
• %PUBURLPATH{web="System" topic="MainFeatures"}% expands to /pub/System/MainFeatures
• %PUBURLPATH{topic="System.MainFeatures" "icon_plus.png"}% expands to /pub/System/MainFeatures/icon_plus.png
• Also supports topic_version and attachment_version parameters. These can be used with advanced store implements to select specific attachment versions. However simple file-based stores do not normally support them.

This macro will only generate a relative URL if the store supports them, and the context allows it. Otherwise it will generate the same as PUBURL

The 'old' way of building URLs using PUBURLPATHPATH involved concatenating the web and topic names to the PUBURLPATH e.g. %PUBURLPATH%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%. This practice is strongly discouraged, as it does not correctly handle encoding of the parts of the URL. At the first opportunity you should replace all such URLs with the equivalent %PUBURLPATH%{topic="System.MainFeatures"}%, which will handle URL encoding for you.

ATTACHURLPATH provides a shorter way to refer to the attachments on the current topic.

Related

PUBURL, ATTACHURL, ATTACHURLPATH, SCRIPTURL, SCRIPTURLPATH, FileAttachments