Improvements for adding links to other topics

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Marc
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Improvements for adding links to other topics

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When linking to another topic, you can use the variable <%TARGETTITLE%> for the link caption, which then inserts the title of the topic you link to only when the document is built. This is an extremely helpful feature that makes keeping links up to date easy. Sadly, many users probably are not aware of this feature because it is only mentioned somewhere deep down in the documentation.
  • It could be a good idea to have a corresponding option right within the "Edit Hyperlink" window.
  • It would be great to have a similar variable that can add the text that is within a paragraph that you link to with the help of an anchor. So you could easily build links like "see Reports > Printing a report" is "Reports" is the topic title and "Printing a report" is the heading of a toggle, for example. If anyone later decides to change "Printing a report" to "Print report", for instance, you won't need to care about updating all links accordingly.
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Re: Improvements for adding links to other topics

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Hi Marc,

Thanks for your suggestions, which I'm passing on to our developers. Note that we get a lot of suggestions (most of them by email) and there is a very long list of things that may or may not be implemented, so we can't promise if and when something will actually turn up in the program. :?
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Re: Improvements for adding links to other topics

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Hi Marc,

We've already improved this -- now you can activate the variable directly with a checkbox in the link tool:

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You can get this change right away with the current stable beta of HM9 if you wish:

https://www.helpandmanual.com/download/ ... p-v941.exe
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