Clickable Links & PDF's?

[Walter Chisenski]

I hope these are a couple of easy questions. I've looked through the forums and didn't find what I was looking for - but I may have missed it.

1. I'm publishing a database using CMDL to a website. When there is a URL listed in one of the fields it's listed as just plain text. I would like this URL to be a clickable link. Is there a simple way to do this using a tag or something within the field itself?

2. These links and URL's will be pointing to PDF's for the most part. Outside of keeping the PDF's in a directory and linking to them - is there a better way to go about this? I would like to "import" the PDF into the database, but have not found a way to house PDF files within FMP (like in a container or something).

Any information would be great!

Walter

[cjaeger]

1-just create a link as you would for a static file and insert the appropriate CDML placeholder with your url field instead.

2-not possible. You can get the df into a container in windows, but this is merely a link to the file and does not work for Web Publishing. Or you can store the PDF as image or movie in MacOS X, but that woud not open the PDF file in web either.

[Walter Chisenski]

Christian,

That seems to be the way I'll need to do it. I've created a new field just for the URL links only.

In my original message above, what I was really looking to do was to enable a clickable link within a field that also contained other data, not just the URL.

Thanks!

--

Walter