Autodesk-AutoCAD / AutoLispExt

Visual Studio Code Extension for AutoCAD® AutoLISP
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Autodesk.autolispext
Apache License 2.0
83 stars 29 forks source link

Online help links are broken #183

Open hansWurst-creator opened 2 years ago

hansWurst-creator commented 2 years ago

Some links to the online help with the right click menu are not working any more.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. For help I have targeted Autocad 2021 (setting; "autolispext.help.TargetYear": "2021",)
  2. Right click on vla-put-StyleName
  3. Click Open Online Help
  4. instead of the expected page I land on the generic page through this link: https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2021/ENU/?guid=GUID-4CEE5072-8817-4920-8A2D-7060F5E16547 image

Expected behavior Landing on the correct documentation page: https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2021/ENU/?guid=GUID-F70A2F76-B986-4742-9863-4A9693C8DA0A image

Additional context From very limited testing all links to the ActiveX reference are broken. This goes far beyond only this extension. All links to your documentation are broken. See https://www.cadtutor.net/forum/topic/66700-whats-wrong-with-this-code/?do=findComment&comment=546540 as an example. This of course also affects google search etc.

Rant: I have been developing autolisp code for the last 5 years. In this time frame Autodesk managed to break links a couple of times. Because of this I have wasted in aggregate several days to find information that was still online just under a new link. Sadly Autodesk hasn't learnt from its past mistakes yet. Especially documentation should be available under the same link for the next 20 years. This would also benefit Autodesk as working with its products is then faster and way less painfull. Sorry guys. I know you developing this extensions are not to blaim for this. But hopefully you can get some sense into whover thinks that changing links is acceptable behaviour.