Help Topic Linking

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You should include hyperlinks to related topics from your Help topics to help users in finding the information that they need. This topic describes when and how to use these different links.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Help contains the following types of links.

Link type Description Useful for

Hyperlink

Links that are authored or automatically inserted directly in topics and have fixed targets in other topics.

Linking to another topic.

Shortcut

Links that open windows directly in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client.

Linking to a window in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

URL

Links to the Internet or other external resources.

Linking to other resources, such as content on partners' and customers' own sites.

By default, Microsoft Dynamics NAV Help uses links in the following topic types.

Topic type Hyperlink purpose Type of link Inserted by

All topics except window topics

Link to related topics

Hyperlink

Help author

All topics

Standard hyperlink paragraphs linking to general functions Help.

Hyperlink or hyperlinks

Help Builder (after the author has configured the elements)

For more information about which types of links belong in each topic type, see the descriptions of the individual topic types.

You can configure the Help Builder to insert a standard paragraph with hyperlinks to central topic(s), such as overview of general user functions. In core Help for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the following standard hyperlink section exists:

For more information about how to work with fields and columns, see Work with Data. For assistance in finding specific pages, see Search.

The standard hyperlinks paragraph is automatically inserted into topics before the See Also paragraph.

If this section is not present, then the hyperlinks paragraph is inserted at the end of the content. For more information, see Advanced Settings.

Shortcuts

You can insert a shortcut in a Help topic to open a window in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. For more information, see Creating and Running Hyperlinks.

Help project target Type of window Example shortcut

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client

Page

<a href="DynamicsNAV:////runpage?Page=123">Name of Page</a>

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client

Report or batch job

<a href="DynamicsNAV:////runreport?report=123">Name of Report</a>

See Also

Concepts

Help Topic Types
Help Topic File Names
Help Topic Formatting
Help Topic Linking
Help Topic Titles and Headings