Adding Content To The Website – uPerform On-Premise Manuals

Pages and subpages allow you to provide a structural organization to your website. Links are added to these pages to allow your end users to launch specific content items.

Add and Edit Content Links

When you add a link to a page, you are inserting a hyperlink to published application content or to non-uPerform Express content stored on another file or web server. You can add a single link to your website or import a folder of links. Links are created using relative paths, when possible.

Adding a Link to a Page

Select the page to contain the link from the Pages task pane.
Select Insert > Link....

Perform one of the following options:

If You Want To

Then

Create a link to content

Select the File radio button and click ... to browse to the file.

The Name field is automatically populated based on the filename.

Create a link to non-uPerform Express content

Select the File radio button and click ... to browse to the file.
The file must be located on a file or web server accessible by your end users.
Enter the name of the document in the Name field.
If desired, select Copy content to published website folder. This option copies content to the website folder during publishing.

Create a link to a website location

Enter a name for the website location in the Name field.
Example: Acme Corporate Website
Enter the complete website address in the Url field.
Example: http://www.acme.com

Click OK.

NOTE:

The content link is displayed in the Links list.

Adding Links via Drag-and-Drop

Select the page to contain the link(s) from the Pages task pane.
Select the Page tab.
In Windows Explorer, select one or more files or a folder of files.
Drag and drop the file(s) or folder into the Links list.

Adding Multiple Links to a Page

Select the page to contain the links from the Pages task pane.
Select Insert > Multiple Links....
Select the folder from which links should be imported.
Click OK.

NOTE:

The application will import links from the specified folder and all subfolders for all supported document types. These links will be added to the selected page.

Editing a Link

Select the Page or All Content tab.
Right-click the link name, and select Properties.
For non-uPerform Express content, you can edit the name and location fields and the prop\-entry values. For application-created content, only the location field may be edited.

Moving and Copying a Link

Select the Page tab.

Perform one of the following options:

If You Want To

Then

Move a link to another page

Right-click on the link in the Links list, and select Cut.
Right-click on the target page in the Pages task pane, and select Paste to insert the link on the selected page.

Click and hold the left mouse button on the link in the Links list, and drag the link to the target page in the Pages task pane.
Release the mouse button.

Copy a link to another page

Right-click on the link in the Links list, and select Copy.
Right-click on the target page in the task pane, and select Paste to insert the link on the selected page.

Control-click the left mouse button on the link in the Links list, and drag the link to the target page in the task pane.
Release the mouse button.

Reordering Links on a Page

Select the Page tab.
From the Pages task pane, select the page containing the links to be reordered.
From the Links list, select the link to be reordered, and drag the link up or down within the list.

NOTE:

A black line is displayed to indicate where the page will be inserted when you release the mouse button. Note that pages are always displayed above links in the list.
Release the mouse button to move the link to the new position.

Removing a Link from a Page

Select the Page tab.
From the Pages task pane, select the page containing the link to be removed.
Right-click on the desired link in the Links list, and select Delete.

Deleting a Link from the Website

Deleting a link removes all instances of the link in the website. If you want to remove the link only from a specific page, remove the link via the Page tab.

Select the All Content tab.
Right-click on the desired link, and select Delete.
Click Yes to remove the link from the website.