Prospecting guide disabled - 100s bad URLs

core/views/prospect.py

@@ -52,8 +52,22 @@ def prospecting(request):
     '''This produces the multipage 'prospecting guide' document,
     intended to be printed and carried into the field - in 1999.
     
-    All the formatting and selection clverness is in the template file.
+    All the formatting and selection cleverness is in the template file.
+    
+    This produces a vast number of bad 404 URLs as many URLs in the cave_data
+    XML files refer to other caves, assuming that they are in the same directory
+    as the prospecting guide. But since the introduction of the 1623/ level, this is
+    not true. e.g. 163 refers to 162 as href="../162.htm" which is valid in the cave
+    description page but not when navigating from the prospecting guide page.
+    
+    Since this vast number of broken links is getting in the way of finding real errors, the guide
+    has been disabled. 
     '''
+    message = f'This prospecting guide text report contains many broken URLs because of a major redesign\n' +\
+    ' to put caves into 1623/ and 1624/ folders in 2017. It was mostly useless because recent QM info was not in it anyway.\n\n' +\
+    'It is disabled in the python code in "prospecting(request):" in troggle/core/views/prospect.py'
+    return render(request,'errors/disabled.html', {'message': message})
+
     areas = []
     for key, name in AREANAMES:
         a = Area.objects.get(short_name = key) # assumes unique