I'm creating an Engage presentation to be distributed on CD. I have pdf and word documents that I want to link to, from within the presentation. The problem is, it only lets me add links to URLs or other parts of the interaction. I can’t seem to link it to a local file. Is there a way to do that?
This is identical to linking to an image on your local website. Generally on a webpage you will have folder with the index.html which is the starting page. Inside of that are folders including documents, etc.
When you are linking, you do not actually use a drive letter. Instead you use abbreviations that tell the program where to begin searching for whatever it is you want to link to.
Say in my example I want to link to the Document1 PDF from the Index.html file. To do that I could write the link in two fashions.
DOCUMENTS/DOCUMENT1.PDF
or
../DOCUMENTS/DOCUMENT1.PDF
The only difference between the two is that the ../ means to go up one directory level and then begin looking for whatever it is you are looking for. In this case it would be look for a folder named documents and then find the documents1.pdf.
If you use ../../ it means to go up two directory structure levels. ../../../ would mean go up three directory structures.
I.e. to link to the DOCUMENT3.PDF you would use the ../../TEMP/DOCUMENT3.PDF
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Hi Christine,
When you insert the hyperlink, you'll need to put the following:
[quote]
"../"
[/quote]
(minus the quotations)
Then, you'll just have to make sure that the file that you're linking to is in a folder above where the Engage file sits.
This is identical to linking to an image on your local website. Generally on a webpage you will have folder with the index.html which is the starting page. Inside of that are folders including documents, etc.
When you are linking, you do not actually use a drive letter. Instead you use abbreviations that tell the program where to begin searching for whatever it is you want to link to.
Say in my example I want to link to the Document1 PDF from the Index.html file. To do that I could write the link in two fashions.
DOCUMENTS/DOCUMENT1.PDF
or
../DOCUMENTS/DOCUMENT1.PDF
The only difference between the two is that the ../ means to go up one directory level and then begin looking for whatever it is you are looking for. In this case it would be look for a folder named documents and then find the documents1.pdf.
If you use ../../ it means to go up two directory structure levels. ../../../ would mean go up three directory structures.
I.e. to link to the DOCUMENT3.PDF you would use the ../../TEMP/DOCUMENT3.PDF
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