Care FAQs Articles
The following article describes the process to link to a file on your website. Remember that in order to use any file on your site (image, PDF, PowerPoint, MS Word, etc.), you must first upload it to your server using the File Manager. The following steps assume that you have already placed the actual file on the web server.
To put it on a page within your group, you can link to it by following these steps:
Determine the location/address (URL) of the file itself:
- Place your cursor where you would like the link in the editor.
- Click the "Image File" button on the editor toolbar. This launches the file browser.
- Browse to the file you would like to link to and select it.
- At the bottom of the file details area there is a link displayed. It says to link to this file, use the following URL. Copy this URL by highlighting it with the mouse, while holding the ctrl key on the keyboard press the C key (this copies the text to the clipboard).
- Close the file browser window popup.
Now that you know the location/address (URL) to the file, you are ready to link to it:
- Go back to the page editor and click the "Hyperlink" button on the editor toolbar. It is a world with a yellow star and what looks to be two links of a chain.
- You will see another popup window. In the link field paste the link you copied by putting your cursor in the link field, while holding the CTRL key on the keyboard, press the V key (this pastes the text from the Windows clipboard).
- Give the link some text by typing your preferred text in the Text field (i.e. "Click here to view the March issue").
- Choose whether or not you would like the document to appear in a new window.
- Click the OK button.
This process builds a hyperlink to your document and places it within the editor.
For more advanced users: If you know and are comfortable with HTML, you can switch the editor to HTML mode and type an anchor tag with an "href" attribute by hand. All files are located in the "uploads" directory.