- Link to an Attachment from Bubble Text
- Link to an Attachment from Bubble Text
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- As you enter custom text in bubbles and Introduction/End frames, you can link to an attachment from this text. For example, you could use a web page linked at this level to provide a definition of a term. Linked text appears in the frame bubble in color and underlined. When a user clicks linked text while viewing a topic in the Player, the attachment is displayed. If the attachment is a package file, the file opens in its parent application. If the attachment is a web page or URL, it opens in a new, independent browser window.
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- Use the Bubble Text Link Properties dialog box to link to and manage the links to attachments from bubble text. When linking to a package file or web page, you can filter the display to include packages or web pages only and navigate through the Library folders to the specific file you want to link. When linking to a URL, you can type or paste a base URL and then follow links in the preview pane to reach your desired target. A preview of the linked attachment appears in the Bubble Text Link Properties dialog box.
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- Base URL
- Relative URLs are useful when the content developer is not sure of the location where the content is to be deployed. They allow the content developer to link to content outside of the Library in the Developer.
- The Base URL can be set in the Developer and can be changed, if necessary, in the Player Package after publication.
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- Base URL
- Like concept and frame links, a link to an attachment from bubble text becomes part of the parent document. If you then move or reuse the topic, the linked attachment remains associated with that text in the topic. Conversely, deleting the link to an attachment from bubble text in one location removes the link in all places where the topic is used.
- With the topic open in the Topic Editor, navigate to the frame from which you want to link to a package file or web page.
- Select the bubble text to be linked.
- In the Frame Properties toolpane, click
- Bubble text link
- Click
- Create link
- In the Link to pane, select
- Document in Library
- Packages
- Web pages
- Type
- Navigate the Library to the folder containing the package file or web page to which you want to link.
- Select the desired package file or web page document.
- Click
- OK
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- With the topic open in the Topic Editor, navigate to the frame from which you want to link to a URL.
- Select the bubble text to be linked.
- In the Frame Properties toolpane, click
- Bubble text link
- Click
- Create link
- In the Link to pane, select
- URL
- In the
- Address
- Base URL
- Click
- Go
- Click
- OK
- To create and link a new package from bubble text:
- With the topic open in the Topic Editor, navigate to the frame from which you want to link to a new package file.
- Select the bubble text to be linked.
- In the Frame Properties toolpane, click
- Bubble text link
- Click
- Next
- Browse to and choose the files/folders that you want to add to the package and click
- Next
- Type a name for the new package and browse to a location in the Library where you want it saved (if you do not want to save it in the default location).
- Click
- Next
- Choose a file in the package that is to be launched when the bubble text is clicked. Navigate through any folders contained in the new package, if appropriate.
- Click
- Next