Drawing, saving & viewing hyperlinks

Hyperlinking feature is used for easy navigation between documents, between pages of multiple documents or between pages of same document by creating links between document pages, for navigating inside a specific folder present in the same collection or navigating to an external web page through an external link

You can insert hyperlink in the document through the Viewer in the form of THREE shapes:

You are provided with the option in the tool-bar to select the preferred shape of the hyperlink.

Creating file hyperlink (Hyperlink to a specific page of a file)

Through the Link to pop-up box you can select the destination document. This pop-up box displays all the folders, files inside the collection where the current document exists. You can choose the destination page as any page of the source document (where the hyperlink is being created), any page of any document existing inside the collection (within which the source document exists) be it inside any user-created folder or system-created folders like 'Latest documents' folder.

Note: Hyperlinking is a collection-wise feature and documents from other collections in the account will not appear on the Link to pop-up box.

Lets say you want to link to page number of 2 of multi-page file which exists inside an user-created folder.

The files for linking will now appear on the Link to pop-up box. This is shown below,

The button beside a file means that the file is a multi-page file.

Note:

The Link to pop-up box now changes to Jump to pop-up box which displays a preview of the destination document page. This is shown below,

Hence, your hyperlink is now created on the desired destination document.

Pointers:

Saving the hyperlink

After you create the hyperlink there are two ways you can save the hyperlink.

First method:

Second method:

After you save the hyperlink it will appear under the 'Saved hyperlink' drop-down as well as the 'Saved markup' drop-down present on the top of the Viewer.

Viewing and accessing saved hyperlinks

Note: This icon [Toggle markup view ON/OFF] means that the annotation shape is visible on the Viewer and this icon means that the annotation shape is hidden from view. You can click on the saved annotation row to make the hyperlink shape appear and disappear.

After clicking the saved hyperlink row the hyperlink annotation shape [highlighted in the screenshot with green rectangle] appears on the document. This is shown below,

 

Note: The preview only appears if the checkbox is 'Enable hyperlink preview' is enabled from collection settings. This is shown in the screenshot below,

 

 

The saved hyperlink is also displayed under the 'Saved markup' drop-down.

Note: You can delete a saved external hyperlink from preview pop-up screen and from the 'Saved hyperlink' drop-down and 'Saved markup' drop-down. But you cannot change the link of a saved external hyperlink.

 

Note: The   [Toggle markup view ON/OFF] icon in the 'Saved hyperlink' drop-down supersedes the same button in the 'Saved markup' drop-down. This button in the 'Saved markup' drop-down is useful when the hyperlink is saved in a group with other markup(s). In that case, you can toggle the only the hyperlink view ON/OFF from the 'Saved hyperlink' drop-down and toggle the view the of other markup(s) ON/OFF from the 'Saved hyperlink' drop-down.

Note: If you create a hyperlink with a document present inside the latest documents folder and then upload a new revision of that destination document,

Note: You can save multiple hyperlinks together as group and the count of the hyperlinks saved together as a group is displayed in the 'Saved hyperlink' drop-down. Also, you can save one or more hyperlinks together with other markups.

External Hyperlink (Hyperlink to an external web page)

Users can copy & paste or manually type external website URLs and create access link to  the URL from any document in the collection through the application Viewer.

Create the hyperlink like when you are creating a file hyperlink, the Link to popup box will appear first. This is shown below,

The space for pasting the web link to typing the external link appears. This is shown below,

After you save the hyperlink it will appear under the 'Saved hyperlink' drop-down as well as the 'Saved markup' drop-down on the top of the Viewer. From these drop-downs you can access the saved external hyperlinks on the document.

Note: You can delete a saved external hyperlink from preview pop-up screen and from the 'Saved hyperlink' drop-down and 'Saved markup' drop-down. But you cannot change the link of a saved external hyperlink.

Folder hyperlink

User can now navigate to a folder through a pre-existing hyperlink and also create a folder hyperlink on a pdf file through the SKYSITE application viewer in both web & device.

After drawing the hyperlink shape, the ‘Link to’ pop-up box opens. This is shown below,

On this pop-up box, there are two tabs – Document/Folder & External link. The Document/Folder tab appears, by default. On this tab, identify the folder which you would like to link as the destination folder.

Screenshot below displays the view inside the folder to be linked:

The ‘Link to’ pop-up box now closes.

Screenshot below displays the Jump to pop-up box which appears after the folder hyperlink is created:

For example, if want to select the folder ’05 Equipment’ as your destination folder [as per the screenshot above], then click the folder named ‘05 Equipment’ to navigate inside that folder and click [Ok] button. This means that the folder ‘05 Equipment’ is selected as the destination folder.

Copying and using the copied hyperlink to create a separate hyperlink:

Hence, next time when you are creating a hyperlink and wants the same folder as the destination hyperlink then you can paste the copied link on the Link to popup box to directly select that folder as the destination folder for the new link.

Screenshot below displays the pasted destination folder path in the Link to popup box:

Saving the folder hyperlink:

The saved hyperlink is displayed under the ‘Saved hyperlink(s)’ drop-down & ‘Saved markup(s)’ drop-down.

Screenshot below displays the newly created hyperlink under the ‘Saved hyperlink(s)’ drop-down:

Screenshot below displays the newly created hyperlink under the ‘Saved markup(s)’ drop-down:

Each row on the saved markup and hyperlink list drop-down displays the name of the hyperlink, the name of the user who created the annotation and the number of annotations that have been saved (Count) together. The newly saved folder hyperlink is, by default, displayed on the document.

Navigating to the collection list screen through the folder hyperlink:

This message means the files inside the linked folder on the collection files screen will appear on the main parent tab of the browser (current application screen from where you opened the document in the Viewer on which you have drawn the folder hyperlink annotation)

 

The files inside the linked folder will be displayed on the Collection files screen. This screen is shown below,

Saving hyperlink with other markups

You can save hyperlinks with other annotation together as group

Screenshot below displayed the drawn and saved group consisting on two markups and two hyperlinks:

The hyperlink count of the group is displayed on the ‘Saved hyperlink list’ at individual level is 2 [highlighted with green oval in the screenshot above] and the total hyperlink count also increases by 2 [highlighted with red oval in the screenshot above]

Toggle view of markup(s) saved together with hyperlink(s) as a group

User can now toggle viewing of markups saved together with hyperlinks as a group. User can save hyperlinks with other markups together in a group and then can do the following:

  1. Choose to view only the hyperlink(s) and hide the other markup(s), saved together as a group, from the ‘Saved markup list’

  2. Choose to view only the other markup(s) and hide the hyperlink(s), saved together as a group, from the ‘Saved hyperlink list’

  3. Choose to view and hide all the markup(s) & hyperlink(s), saved together as a group, using the [View all]/[Hide all] button

Process example of viewing and hiding saved markup(s) together with a hyperlink as a group:

Screenshot below displays the two drawn markups and one drawn hyperlink before saving:

Screenshot below displays the saving of the markups and the hyperlink as a group:

The two saved markups and the hyperlink are displayed as group under the saved markup list.

 Screenshot below displays the saved markups and the hyperlink as a group under the saved markup list:

Screenshot below displays only the hyperlink as the other two markups are now hidden:

Similarly, from the Saved hyperlink menu you can choose to hide only the saved hyperlink in the group while the other two annotations will not disappear.