Setting a hotlink¶
To set a file hotlink:¶
- Load documents related to feature
- Select the hotlink from the list
- Click Edit... to open the Edit File Hotlink dialog
- Provide the file to be linked by doing one of the following:
Manually set Value with the file’s path
- Select an existing file
- Click Browse... to open the file selection dialog
- Select a file from the dialog
- Click Open to set Value with the selected file’s path
- Create a new file from template
- Click New... to open the select template dialog
- Select a template from the list
- Click OK to open the save file dialog
- Select directory and enter filename
- Click Save to set Value with the new file’s path
- (Optional) Click Open to verify that set file is valid and existing
- Click OK to set the hotlink value
- Click Commit to write this change out as the hotlink is stored in the assigned attribute
To set a web hotlink:¶
- Load documents related to feature
- Select the hotlink from the list
- Click Edit... to open the Edit File Hotlink dialog
- Set Value with the website URL to be linked
- (Optional) Click Open to verify that set URL is valid
- Click OK to set the hotlink value
- Click Commit to write this change out as the hotlink is stored in the assigned attribute
To set an action hotlink:¶
- Load documents related to feature
- Select the hotlink from the list
- Click Edit... to open the Edit File Hotlink dialog
- Set Value with the appropriate attribute value
- (Optional) Select Action and click Go to verify the value with set actions
- Click OK to set the hotlink value
- Click Commit to write this change out as the hotlink is stored in the assigned attribute
Sample dataset:
- Try out australia.shp in data_1_4.zip of the Quickstart sample data.
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