[landon]

I cannot find anywhere in the manual or in the UI where I can create a hyperlink in the text of a row.

I'm looking at the Welcome.oo3 that pops up on the first launch of OO3 and it has several hyperlinks in it. One hyperlink is around text to the online user manual at OmniGroup and another hyperlink is around the web image on the bottom right of the Welcome.oo3.

I need to be able to embed both kinds of links but I don't see anything about that. I've searched for "hyperlink" in the OO3 user manual and it comes up dry.

Another oddity is if I export the Welcome page to HTML, the links come out fine in the HTML. But if I drag and drop a link from my Safari into OO3 content, if I'm in OO3 I can click the link and it jumps to the page, but if I export the content, the link is not exported - just plain text.

Anyway, what major inspector or feature am I not seeing that would let me embed a hyperlink in my OO3 page just like the Welcome page has?

[DerekM]

It sounds like you have the auto attachment from typed URLs option turned off. Go to OmniOutliner -> Preferences -> General tab and check 'Automatically create attachments from typed URLs'. Let me know if that doesn't fix this.

[landon]

Thanks a lot for the reply. Indeed the create attachments checkbox was unchecked. After I checked it I could drag the link into my content and it exported fine. So, that definitely solved one problem I was having.

I still could not figure out how to get an existing graphic to be hyperlinked. Similar to the welcome page of OO3, I want to click on the graphic and have it jump to a URL...exported as well.

Any further tips on that technique would be very much appreciated.

[DerekM]

That's not possible unfortunately. The way links are handled handled right now doesn't allow an image to be a hyperlink. I do believe we have plans for this in OO4.

The welcome file simply has the attachment tags turned off so clicking on it brings up the attachment. It doesn't actually have a hyperlink associated with it.

[derick]

Could I make a request? Please index this under "hyperlink" in the help files. I was struggling this morning trying to get OO to display the straight text of a hyperlink rather than the attachment. Why? Because nowhere in the help files does the term "hyperlink" appear. As a relatively new user who's not already keyed in to OmniOutliner's jargon, I see this -- in word processing terms -- as automatically formatting hyperlinks.

The learning curve for getting this program to format documents is higher than almost anything I can think of in nearly 30 years of using Apple computers & gaps in the help files don't make it any easier.

[frankly]

Originally Posted by derick

Could I make a request? Please index this under "hyperlink" in the help files. I was struggling this morning trying to get OO to display the straight text of a hyperlink rather than the attachment. Why? Because nowhere in the help files does the term "hyperlink" appear. As a relatively new user who's not already keyed in to OmniOutliner's jargon, I see this -- in word processing terms -- as automatically formatting hyperlinks.

The learning curve for getting this program to format documents is higher than almost anything I can think of in nearly 30 years of using Apple computers & gaps in the help files don't make it any easier.

I just wanted to second this.