hi
I'm struggling with the EXTERNAL URL action (on any object). No matter what URL I try (e.g. http://www.youtube.com) I get the same error message:
Cannot find file..... Make sure the path or Internet address is correct.

For some reason it's looking for a local (rather than external) file here. I've tried the same thing at home and in college - same problem.

I can get round it by using a window.open javascript - but it'd be easier to use EXTERNAL URL.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'll add this here, because I had the same issue today, which was answered in another message later in this same forum.

In CourseLab 2.4, when you enter your URL in the External URL action, e.g. http://www.pixelparadox.com

you must put quotation marks around it, e.g.
"http://www.pixelparadox.com"

This will result in the Action looking like this:
EXERNAL URL(URL=""http://www.pixelparadox.com/"")

(Notice the double quotes now.)

It works in Chrome, IE, and Firefox.

Good luck.

Thanks - got it working by using the link object (which works fine). Not sure why the EXTERNAL URL action doesn't work...

Hi Vernon
It's working for me, I can't see what would go wrong with this one.
Try enabling all of the options and see if anything changes.
You might want to look at the xml file the module is rendered from too