Create a Hyperlink

A Hyperlink object represents one or more links between a Topic object and other Topic objects and/or Internet URL locations. When published these links become jumps or popups in the Help and HTML, and cross references or footnotes in the printed documentation.

Hyperlink objects contains more information than just the target of the link. Because our content can be published to printed, help and web outputs, the Hyperlink object holds information on how the link will appear in all outputs. When you view a printed document, having an underlined word (or clickable link) isn't any use. When viewing an HTML page, a reference to a specific page number is not any use either.

A hyperlink is made of three components:

1. The anchor text which tells Author-it which text to link from.
2. The Hyperlink object which tells Author-it how the link will behave, including whether to make the link into a jump or a popup, etc.
3. The Target - either Author-it topic/s or external files or locations.

   You can have many targets for each link. You can create a hyperlink which has targets in many books, and then reuse it in many different documents. For internal jumps, when you publish your document's outputs, only jumps to topics within the same document are included.

To Create a Hyperlink to a Topic within the same Book:

If your X5000 User Guide is not already open, locate it within the X5000 folder and open it.

Check to make sure that the X5000 folder is selected.

1. Open the Safer Than Ever topic. Highlight the text precautions. This will be the anchor text for our new Hyperlink.
2. In the Book Contents, select the Tips for Trouble-Free Teleportation Topic. This topic is to be the target of our Hyperlink.
3. Drag the Tips for Trouble-Free Teleportation and drop it onto the highlighted text in the Safer than Ever topic

   

4. Choose Create Link Using > Cross Reference from the menu that appears.

   A new Hyperlink is created and the anchor text changes to blue underlined text.

5. Choose the Save Topic button to save the topic.