Hi,
It's a bit of a "hack", but you can use an embedded Flash
movie to have more control over the whole hyperlink process.
Basically, you simulate the hyperlink with a button in Flash, but
instead of looking like a navigation button, you use the text of
your hyperlink. This has the added advantage that you can make the
text respond to mouse rollovers and clicks with a color change,
something links in PowerPoint won't do.
So, assuming you've named the instance of your "button" as
myLink_btn, you add some actionscript to the main timeline:
myLink_btn.onRelease = function () {
getURL ("
http://my.url.com/index/index.htm","_self");
}
You compile your little Flash movie, and just embed it in
your Powerpoint where you want it. The student will never notice
the difference. We use this solution to provide the student with a
"printable" version of the presentation - before we compile the
PowerPoint with Presenter, we use Acrobat to make a pdf version,
and upload it to the Breeze server. On the first page of the
presentation is a flash-based "link" to the pdf document, and the
student just assumes Breeze is "printing out" a copy of the
presentation.
More on getURL: You can have it load to a named window by
replacing "_self" with the name of the window, or a new window with
"_blank". The getURL command also allows you to send javascript
commands to the browser that's running the Breeze presentation. If
you need to use relative links (if you're going to be building a
standalone application on a CD, for example, and you want to link
to pdf documents in a subdirectory) this is the best way to make
them, as Presenter does a lousy job of converting relative links in
PowerPoint. And, as I said, you can have the links "light up" when
the user mouses over them, something that links made in PowerPoint
won't do.
But... let's say you have 30 pdf documents on your Breeze
server, and you want to make a simple one-page navigation for them.
If you're not worried about capturing LMS data, it's a LOT easier
to just build the whole interface as a single Flash document and
send the student to that - just put all the pdf documents in a
folder on the server that's set to "allow public viewing", and they
don't even need to log in to the server to read them.
🙂 This is a
great workaround if your company is like mine, where a few IT
people have created their own little fiefdom controlling the actual
web server, and you're using Breeze to host all sorts of resources
that would normally be available on your intranet. If you say you
want to host a resource on the "web", you have to go through them
(and what a fun process that is - they insist on building
everything themselves to justify their budget)... but if its on the
"training Breeze sever", they don't care.
LOL.
v/r,
~Marc B
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