Adding Links
Hyperlinks allow website visitors to navigate to other parts of a website or to an external URL from a page, page section, article, some content elements and parts thereof. You can turn rich text into a link quickly and easily in the Editor.
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Selecting the Link Text in the Editor
To select the text you want to turn into a hyperlink, follow these steps:
Navigate to the content item containing the text you want to turn into a link.
Double-click the content area or hover the mouse over the page title and select [Edit]. The Editor becomes active.
In the Editor, highlight the text that you want to turn into a link.
Select [Link] from the Editor's menu bar:
The Create Link dialog box appears:
Hyperlinks can be either to a content item in an XperienCentral channel or to an external URL. To link to a content item within XperienCentral select Content en type a full or partial string in the Search field. To link to an external URL, click Web.
Link Text
In the "Link Text" field, enter the text that displays for the link in the content item. By default the selected text appears in this field. If you change the text in the "Link Text" field, the text in the Rich Text Editor (content item) will also change.
Link Title
The link title functionality was introduced in XperienCentral version 10.26.1.
The link title defines the text that appears in a tool tip that displays when a website visitor hovers the mouse cursor over the link on the website frontend. By default this is the title of the content item or the URL of the web link. You can also define custom text to display in the tool tip or prevent a tool tip from appearing at all.
The options for the link title are:
Title | Description |
|---|---|
Default | The title of the content item or the URL that is entered in the "Address" field for the web link is used for the link title. |
Custom | User-defined text that appears in the tool tip instead of the title of the content item or the URL of the web link. Custom text is useful for when you want to provide more information to the website visitor about the nature of the content that is available should they follow the link. |
None | When you select this option, no tool tip displays when the link is hovered over. |
The image below shows an example of custom link text that makes it clear that by following the link the visitor will go to the ANWB corporate website:
Link Behavior
Select the link behavior from the "Link Behavior" drop-down list. If you don't know which link behavior to use, contact your main editor or application manager for information about the link behaviors available in your deployment and under which circumstances each should be used.
Content Link
Content links link to a content item in an XperienCentral channel. Follow these steps to create a content link.
Select Content Using Search
In the "Content" field, type a full or partial string to search for the content item to which you want to link.
Select the content item from the list of items found. If the content item you are searching for was not found, click Advanced Search to conduct a more thorough search based on content item metadata.
Click [Apply]. The text in the content item changes color and is underlined (according to your corporate style).
Continue editing the content or click [Save] to save the change(s).