As stated in the title, I create a table, type text into the cells and afterwards I highlight the text in one single cell with the intent to add a hyperlink, the hyperlink icon is greyed out - is this not an option?
Three years later and still no hyperlinks in table cells. Hotspots do not work in my situation. Now I heve to built my table with seperate boxes.
Just ran into this "simplest" feature... oh wait, it "should be" a simple feature from Articulate that they can't make it a feature. It's unfortunate.
I fully support this request. How difficult can it be?
Hey Steve,
Welcome to E-Learning Heroes! So glad you're giving the new tables feature in Storyline 3 a whirl 🙂
You're right-- Hyperlinks can be added directly to the table as a whole, not individual cells or selected text which is why you're seeing it greyed out.
You can simulate hyperlinks for cells and text by adding hotspots where you need them and using the hotspots to trigger hyperlinks.
Hope that helps!
Not exactly the reply I was hoping for, but I will make it work with hotspots. I didn't expect the table functionality to rival what is in MS Word, but being able to hyperlink text is super-basic functionality.
Is this something that might get addressed in a future update?
Thanks for the reply!
Hi Steve,
Thanks for sharing your feedback and thoughts here on that. I do think it's a great idea, and submitted a feature request on your behalf.
Following Steve's comments, I really appreciated the introduction of tables, rather than trying to join up a lot of boxes to make a table. HOWEVER..... a great improvement would be to allow the individual cells to have trigger capability and also state configuration. For example, hover over one cell causing all cells in the row to change state, e.g. high-lighted. Just a thought!
That's fantastic feedback, Doug!
I'd love to let our team know about this idea- and I'm curious to know more. Would you mind telling me a little more about why that particular function would come in handy for you? What type of scenario would you use it in?
Thanks so much for letting us know how we can make things better! ✨
Hi Ali Appreciate your quick response. I have attached a sample of what I currently do using shapes lined up as a "table". My projects are not truly elearning projects requiring responses etc, but are more about product demonstration.
Creating this example as a table would enhance the flexibility of tables
Hope it all makes sense.
Doug
Hey Doug!
Wow, thanks so much for that example and explanation. I can see why that would be a handy addition for you!
I've submitted this request to our team on your behalf. If you're curious, here's a little more information on our feature request process.
Keep those ideas coming- super appreciated! 😄
Adding myself to this to see when/if hyperlink capability gets added for tables.
Appreciate your vote, Amy!
I'll let our team know you'd also like to see this capability in a future update of Storyline, and keep this discussion posted on any developments!
For now, one approach could be to style the text to look like a hyperlink and then add a transparent shape over that text with a 'Jump to URL/file' trigger.
It appears there's no update yet (Sept. 2019) that provides the ability to create hypertext links within table cells. A somewhat glaring omission.
I love having tables instead of a bunch of rectangles loosely strung together but....just enabling hypertext links within cell text would go a long way. [feature request already submitted]
