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Asked: 2026-06-01T16:50:13+00:00

I have placed hyperlinks in an excel spreadsheet though my ruby-on-rails application. The links

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I have placed hyperlinks in an excel spreadsheet though my ruby-on-rails application. The links are to some privileged pages that require, After the login I am supposed to taken to the requested page. However, what happens is that after login I lang on the home page of the website. Interestingly, when I right-click the link in the excel and paste the link in the web-browser url, it works as expected. So I don’t think it’s my app’s fault, but rather something in excel that I am missing?

My scenario is pretty much the same as this scenario:
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/289186-excel-2007-hyperlink-loads-web-login-screen-not-linked-urlplease-help-me/

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  1. Editorial Team

    This issue normally happens in IE and i also faced the same problem.

    Solution to this is very simple

    1. Create a redirect.html page in your public folder (public folder because you are using ROR)
    2. Copy this to your redirect.html
    <html>
<body>
Please wait, loading your page... 
<script type="text/javascript">
function getQuerystring(key) {
key = key.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/    [\]]/,"\\\]");
var regex = new RegExp("[\\?&]"+key+"=([^&#]*)");
var query = regex.exec(window.location.href);
return query[1];
}
window.location = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + "/" + getQuerystring('page');
</script>
</body>
</html>

    1. The links you are constructing in excel should be modified

      For e.g Old link – http://test.com/post/comments/1
      New link should be – http://test.com/redirect.html?page=post/comments/1

    2. You need to pass the part of URL (after base url) as a param

    How this works.

    When user clicks a link in excel it points to redirect.html and the javascript constructs the actual URL and redirects again to proper page, user will be navigated to actual page if already logged in else redirected to Login/Home page.

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