I installed External Links in an attempt to force PDFs and DOCs to open into a new window, per a suggestion in another thread.

They suggested adding the following in the Pattern Matching field:

.*doc|.*pdf

Unfortunately, I forgot the "." at the beginning, and instead entered:

*doc|.*pdf

Since doing this, none of the administrative menu expansion options work on any modules, *including* external links!

In other words, I can no longer even open up "Pattern Matching" in order to fix the problem!

The only solution I've found so far is to disable/remove the External Links module completely, which is a shame since it's otherwise very handy.

Any suggestions?

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quicksketch’s picture

quicksketch
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Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Fixed

Just turn off JavaScript and fix your settings at admin/settings/extlink.

Brainwrap’s picture

Brainwrap commented

D'OH!!

OK, I'm feeling pretty stupid right now.

Thanks so much! Fixed.

Out of curiosity, why would that cause the issue? I presume that the wildcard in front of "doc" as a filename instead of an extension caused interference with some javascript file that starts with "doc"?

On a related note, you might want to add what I did as an extra listed feature of your module--if you enter ".*doc|.*pdf" in the Pattern Matching field, it will cause all .DOC and .PDF file links to open in a new window/tab without having to set the target as well, which is extremely handy!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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frankie commented

Hi,
.*doc|.*pdf will match with all the urls that contains doc or pdf (e.g. www.example.com/my_ocuments)

For me the correct pattern is
.*doc$|.*pdf$
this regexp will match only with files extension xyz.doc or xyz.pdf

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Brainwrap commented

Thanks for the tip!