WEB LOGS (BLOGS)


Setting up links
Use Link documents to provide the URL and text for links you want to include in your blog.

1. Open a blog (myblog.nsf, for example).

2. From the Configuration section of the navigator, click the Links view.

3. Click Add Link.

4. Complete the following fields on the Link Details tab:
FieldAction
Link URLEnter the URL for the link.
Link TextEnter the text for the link. This is the actual text that a user would click to access this link.
CategorySelect a category from the list.

Note If you have not created any link categories, this list will be blank. You can edit this document at a later time to assign a category.

5. Click the Advanced tab and complete these fields:
FieldAction
DescriptionEnter a description of the link
AuthorEnter the author’s name of the site your are linking to, if applicable.
Show Link in standard list?Select Yes to include this link the list of links that displays.
Launch Link in ExternalSelect Yes to launch this in a new window.

Select Inherited to use the master setting for the blog, specified in the Configuration document (Formatting > Lists > Links tab, Launch Links in External Window field.)

OrderBy default links are displayed alphabetically. If you have ordered links another way, enter a number to specify the order in which this link is listed.
Overriding link HTML PrefixEnter the HTML that will appear before this link if you want to use something other than the text specified in the Configuration document (Formatting > Lists > Links tab, Link Prefix HTML and Post Text/HTML fields.)
6. Click Save & Close.

7. Click Update Link Index. (Required only when changing the formatting in the Configuration document).

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