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Adding Hyperlinks

A feature for clients with the Branded App, is the ability to hyperlink between entries within the app itself (even when not connected to the internet). We can also create a Binder PDF of all your files that includes internal linking within the document. There are two ways to add hyperlinks to your documents: collecting them yourself from the portal, and having us provide you with a spreadsheet of all the links.

However you collect the links, they will work with or without internet access once the set has been downloaded onto a mobile device.

Every document in the portal has a field showing the unique URL that can be used as an internal link. To use it, just select it and copy it to your clipboard.

The sets browser with a file selected, and the hyperlink displayed

After creating the app with the initial set of files, we can send you a spreadsheet of specific URLs for each file. Open the file we send and find the link you want to use. Copy the link from spreadsheet to your clipboard.

Screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet with links to all protocols, with a protocol of interest highlighted Screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet showing how to copy the selected link of interest using a contextual menu

The steps will be similar in other authoring apps, but we'll show Microsoft Word here.

Follow these steps for each link you want to add:

  1. Open the document in which you want to insert the link. Highlight the text you want to become a link.

    Screenshot of an open document in Microsoft Word with highlighted text that will become a link

  2. Right-click (or, on a Mac, hold the “Command” key as you click) and select “Link.”

    Screenshot of an open document in Microsoft Word with the contextual menu open, showing the link option

  3. Paste the appropriate link from the spreadsheet and press “Insert.”.

    Screenshot of the Link dialog box in Microsoft Word, with the editable Display Text and Address fields, and Insert button

  4. Repeat this process for all the links you want to add. When finished, send the new files as an update. We cannot add hyperlinks to your documents, but we can provide further technical support and instruction for how to do it on your own.

If your content is provided as a full binder PDF, you can simply hyperlink internally, rather than linking to our provided URLs.

You can also include hyperlinks to external URLs of your choosing (this is not limited to Branded Apps).

If you want to insert a link that will prompt the user to call a specific number you can make the address of the hyperlink:

tel:{phone number}

For example, clicking or tapping a link with the address tel:123-555-4567 will ask the user if they want to call the number "123-555-4567"

Similar to 'tel:' is the link, 'mailto:' If you make the address of a hyperlink mailto:example@domain.com then when clicked the link will open the users default email application and begin composing an email message to example@domain.com.

Videos​

Though the app does not support videos, you can include documents with a link to an external site like Vimeo or YouTube where the video is available. To do this, simply create a word document, type in the name of the video. Highlight the text and select, “insert hyperlink.” Paste the appropriate URL for the video. Then you can highlight the text again and adjust size and formatting how you want. Save the file as a PDF and send. When users click the link in the app, their default browser will open and take them to the external site to view the video. In this case, the user will need an internet connection to view the video.