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11/11/2006 6:44 AM
 

Hi all,

trying to setup a nice Help Area where my users can click Hyperlinks to refer to a section within another help document.

Have tried the usual anchors like http://mysite/mydoc.html#myanchor  - but no sucess.

Any idea how I can cross link into sections of other help pages ???

 
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4/10/2007 10:13 PM
 

This is an old post, and noticed that no one has posted back.  I am doing what you are talking about using the latest help (that comes with dnn 4.5).  What I do is open the two help documents in seperate tabs in FireFox and then copy the link to the page and then paste it into the page with the link as a link.  It seems to work ok.  It is not super elegant, but does work.

 
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5/10/2007 2:20 AM
 

This is a new feature we will be releasing possibly in the next release but more likely in the one after.  the idea will be to allow you to have "Related" items at the bottom of a tutorial.


Philip Beadle - Employee
 
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5/10/2007 11:55 AM
 

Philip

I think a related tutorials section at the bottom is a great idea.  What I was after was being able to select text in the rich text editor while authoring a tutorial and create a "link" to another tutorial using the Insert/Edit Link feature of the rich text editor.  I do this today by just figuring out what the friendly url is of the tutorial I want to link to and then paste that in to the link box.   It would be a whole lot easier if I could browse for a tutorial in a folder view of the categories.  Something like this:

- Cat1
  |- Tut1
  |- Tut2
- Cat2
  |- Cat3
     |- Tut3
     |- Tut4

I have no idea how the rich text editor can be programmed, but the browse server button that is there would be a logical place to put it.  Right now all it does is let me pick from a pre-programmed url in the link gallery.  Maybe a radio button to select a tutorial from a drop down like there is for an existing page?

Thanks.

James

 
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5/10/2007 6:33 PM
 

I can't wait for this feature to be added either.  It is great to get community feedback on how it could work so please keep your ideas coming . I agree that a separate field on the edit page with the ability to select one or more Related Tutorials from the Category tree. I'm guessing that it could be quicker now to load an extensive category tree with Ajax?

I have also been pondering how to keep Related Links up to date when new tutorials are added without having to go back to existing tutorials and selecting the new Tutorials. Perhaps Related Links could go both ways. E.g. when you select Tutorial X as being related to Tutorial Y, the module automatically (or maybe optionally) relates Tutorial Y to Tutorial X.  Then of course there is the 'dream solution' where on the Edit page of a tutorial you could perform keyword searches to locate potential Related Tutorials.


Lorraine Young
www.dnnangel.com
Author of the DotNetNuke User Manuals
& Co-author "DotNetNuke For Dummies"
 
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