Linking to an anchor

[Sean Godley]

Hi all,

I am writing a chapter in one of my manuals and the developers have asked that I add links to various sections of the page. I looked through the help manual and it says there:

You can also create URL links from your application or from other web pages to anchors in WebHelp pages so that users are taken directly to a specific point in a topic when they use your links. The syntax is exactly the same as the standard HTML syntax for URLs containing anchor references:

index.html?topicname.htm#anchorname

I have tried doing this but it doesn't seem to work. For example, here is a page in my manual that contains an anchor:

https://help.tracker-software.com/pdfxe ... ns_ed.html

The name of the anchor is "editactionslist" - so, I thought the following link should work:

https://help.tracker-software.com/pdfxe ... ctionslist

But it does not work. Can anyone offer any help please?

Thanks,

Sean

[Tim Green]

Hi Sean,

The anchor works as described, you just left parts of the URL out. The correct URL for this topic wold be:

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https://help.tracker-software.com/pdfxe8/index.html?link-options_ed.html#editactionslist

Your link was:

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https://help.tracker-software.com/pdfxe8/link-options_ed.htm#editactionslist

You used .htm instead of .html as the file extension and left out the index.html? part at the beginning.

[Sean Godley]

Brilliant!

Thanks for your help.

Sean