Hello. We are using Rise to create a reference website for new hires in our department and for our team's reference. We use your products, and the ability to search a course is wonderful. One thing that would be extremely helpful would be having the ability to link from one section to another. We have training content that is similar to others and it would be nice to be able to allow the user to skip between the sections and view content they need. Just a suggestion, Thanks!

Those are awesome choices, I didn't know about the button block and will be exploring that option! Thank you. I do agree it would be nice to add a hyperlink to text that could like to other pages in the rise site as well, but this is a better solution than nothing.

Sorry for resurrecting this post, but I'd also love to see the linkable page option come to life, as well as a linkable section option. What I mean is, while you can currently link from one lesson to another using buttons, and people have asked for that ability to be added to text hyperlinks as well, I'd like to also request the ability to link from one place on a page to another. Like in Wikipedia, where you can link to a particular section on the page, that's what I'd like to be able to do in Rise. So if I have one lesson with a few different parts in it, users could jump around between sections using buttons and/or hyperlinked text in the sections. I'm not sure how you'd implement and recognize the different sections, but maybe in the beginning you'd have to use a Statement object, and can only link to those, but eventually perhaps you could link to anything, like "Jump down to this button if they click here". Edit: I'm thinking of the ability to build a table of contents at the beginning of a lesson, allowing people to click to jump around, and a "return to top" link in each section. While this can be done by just creating each section as its own lesson, that feels like a lot of page loads and doesn't allow users to scroll around through content even after jumping to a point from the ToC.

I guess they can always use the menu (if you have that turned on), or otherwise add Interactive > Button / Button Stack and direct them to different pages. Is that what you are after?

I agree with Broderick, I think you can only link to another lesson block if you use the Button stack block. I'm not sure if this is what Broderick means but I would like to be able to highlight certain words in any type of lesson and have the option to link to another lesson in the Rise course, as well as the ability to link to other Rise courses, instead of just being able to hyperlink to an external link. I think Rise is great and I know we are always looking for more!!!! Thanks Diane

Are there any plans to support text hyperlinks to other lessons in the future? While the button block is useful in many cases, some of my lessons would need to have more than a few buttons and using them would have them outside the immediate context of my content in some cases.

Feature Suggestion: Link to pages within course

28 Replies

LeanneFalconer1
Community Member
6 years ago
Hi

I would love to be able to create links to lessons within a Rise course using images or hyperlinks. It would definitely add value to the courses we create.

Could we also look at being able to change the buttons to an image we upload?

Leanne
AlexanderLeal
Community Member
6 years ago
Thank you Alyssa. Just wondering, how many "votes" do you need to consider a feature to be added. This thread has been existing for more than a year now and it looked like it's not progressing. I can ask all my peers to respond to this thread and vote.
- Crystal-Horn
  Staff
  6 years ago
  Hi, Alexander! The number of folks requesting a feature is one of a few factors that we use to help prioritize new ideas in development. Here's some detail on how we manage feature requests.
  - AlexanderLeal
    Community Member
    6 years ago
    Thanks for this info Crystal.
AlyssaGomez
Staff
6 years ago
Nothing new to share yet, Alexander. Thanks for letting us know this feature is important to you, and we'll keep you posted!
AlexanderLeal
Community Member
6 years ago
Any updates on this feature?
LaurenParker-53
Community Member
6 years ago
I am actually developing a Glossary in my Rise course and am loving Full Tilt Ahead's ideas. At minimum, I want to be able to link the text to a Glossary lesson, but I really like the idea of hover popups for glossary terms. That would be amazing!
AlyssaGomez
Staff
6 years ago
Thanks for the ideas, Full Tilt Ahead!
AlyssaGomez
Staff
6 years ago
Hi there, Greg. That's a popular request, and I'll add your vote! If we add the ability to hyperlink to specific blocks in a lesson, we'll let you know.
- FullTiltAhead
  Community Member
  6 years ago
  One more vote for this feature to be able to link to other blocks in the lesson as well as other lessons in the course. In addition, a particularly useful addition would be being able to set the target so authors could open links in the same or new tab/window. And finally, a way to get back. For instance, in our case we are trying to create a glossary. It is useful to be able to hyperlink a term to a Glossary lesson with a back button that returns users back to the previous page they were viewing - or alternatively, close the Glossary tab to return to the lesson they were viewing.
  
  While I'm at it... ideally, it would be great to be able to have on-hover popups for glossary and definition content so users don't have to interrupt their flow in order to view defined terms. Thanks!
GregBrown-b3bae
Community Member
6 years ago
Sorry for resurrecting this post, but I'd also love to see the linkable page option come to life, as well as a linkable section option.

What I mean is, while you can currently link from one lesson to another using buttons, and people have asked for that ability to be added to text hyperlinks as well, I'd like to also request the ability to link from one place on a page to another. Like in Wikipedia, where you can link to a particular section on the page, that's what I'd like to be able to do in Rise. So if I have one lesson with a few different parts in it, users could jump around between sections using buttons and/or hyperlinked text in the sections.

I'm not sure how you'd implement and recognize the different sections, but maybe in the beginning you'd have to use a Statement object, and can only link to those, but eventually perhaps you could link to anything, like "Jump down to this button if they click here".

Edit: I'm thinking of the ability to build a table of contents at the beginning of a lesson, allowing people to click to jump around, and a "return to top" link in each section. While this can be done by just creating each section as its own lesson, that feels like a lot of page loads and doesn't allow users to scroll around through content even after jumping to a point from the ToC.
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
7 years ago
Hi John,

You can insert text hyperlinks right now! Take a look at this quick example of adding a hyperlink to a Button Block, a Statement, and even an Accordion interaction:

Those won't go to other lessons just yet, but I'll let our team know you'd like to see that feature added!
JohnMaher-28333
Community Member
7 years ago
Are there any plans to support text hyperlinks to other lessons in the future? While the button block is useful in many cases, some of my lessons would need to have more than a few buttons and using them would have them outside the immediate context of my content in some cases.