You can edit the related link element to make links to websites and FTP locations, as well as to files outside the repository.
When you are linking to files you may use either absolute or
relative pathnames. However, you should keep in mind that setups vary in different
machines. You can safely use relative pathnames if you are sure that multiple documents
will always be sent as a single package. However, if there’s a chance that only a
portion of the files will be sent, and that the target file isn’t among them, then the
link may become invalid.
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Open the topic in your XML editor.
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Place the cursor anywhere in the topic.
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Use Search to display topics in the
Search Results view.
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Right-click any topic, then select from the menu.
Note: This inserts an XML related link. You'll need to edit its attributes so that it references the actual file or remote location.
The topic title appears in the Related
Links section, with the link created. If there is no
Related Links section, oXygen creates
one.
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Place your cursor on the newly created
<link>.
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Open the oXygen Attributes view.
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In the <link> tag's
href attribute, type the location you want to reference.
The following table shows the types of location accepted by
the href attribute and their syntax.
| Location type |
Syntax |
| Web site |
http://sitename
|
| Secure web site |
https://sitename
|
| FTP site |
ftp://sitename
|
| Secure FTP site |
ftps://sitename
|
| Local file |
file://driveletter/filename
|
The following screen shot shows an example of an edited
href attribute.
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In the <link> tag's scope attribute, select external.
- Optional:
Insert additional links as needed.