Manual hyperlinking

In this topic

• Manual hyperlinking
• • Create a hyperlink to an asset
  • Create a hyperlink to a web address
  • Edit a manually created hyperlink
  • Remove a manually created hyperlink

If you want more control over your hyperlinks, you can use manual hyperlinks to guide others to or from a specific asset. This is particularly useful if automatic hyperlinking is disabled or if the link text doesn't match the name of the target asset.

Tip You can also manually create hyperlinks to web addresses.

Create a hyperlink to an asset

You can manually create hyperlinks to assets.

Steps

1. Open an asset page.
2. Double-click Click a text attribute, for example, the definition, to edit the text.
3. Select the text to transform into a hyperlink.
4. On the toolbar, click (Insert/edit link)(Link) → Link to asset.
5. Enter the required information.

   Setting	Description
   Assets	The name of the asset to which you want to link. The assets are filtered as you type. Tip To help you identify the correct asset, the domain of each asset is shown below the asset name.
   Text to display	The display text that will be visible in the attribute. By default, this is the text that you selected.

   Note 

   • You can link to multiple assets, in which case, all links are shown in the lower-left corner of the screen when someone clicks the link. They can then select which one to open.
     
   • Links to assets added using Link to asset are not clickable in emails.
6. Click Save to save the hyperlink.
7. Click Save to save the content of the text field. Click to save the content of the text field.

Create a hyperlink to a web address

In addition to creating hyperlinks to other assets in your environment, you can also create hyperlinks to web addresses. When you click the hyperlink, it will automatically open in a new tab.

Note If necessary, you can use a text editor to create a hyperlink to a web address.

Steps

1. Open an asset page.
2. Double-click Click a text attribute or click to edit the text.
3. Select the text to transform into a hyperlink.
4. On the Edit toolbar, click (Insert/edit link)(Link) → Link to URL.
5. Enter the required information.

   Setting	Description
   URL	The target website of the hyperlink. Note If the link contains unsafe characters, the link is either ignored or encoded depending on the sanitizer enforced by your administrator. For more information, go to Enforce legacy sanitizer.
   Text to display	The display text that will be visible in the attribute. By default, this is the text that you selected.

6. Click Save to save the hyperlink.
7. Optional: Edit the source code so that the hyperlink automatically opens in a new tab when you click it.
   1. Click Source code () or the HTML Editor.
   2. Type target ="_blank" after the href attribute.

      Example Click <a xml="lang" href="https://productresources.collibra.com/" target="_blank">here</a> for more information.

   3. Click Save.
8. Click Save. Click to save the content of the text field.

Edit a manually created hyperlink

After you have manually created a hyperlink, you can always edit it later.

Note Automatic hyperlinks can't be edited.

Steps

1. Open an asset page.
2. Double-click Click a text attribute or click in the text field that contains the hyperlink that you want to edit.
3. Click anywhere on the hyperlinked text and click Edit.
   An action list appears.
4. Click Edit.
   
5. Update the link:
   1. Enter the required information. tt

      Field	Description
      URL	The target website of the hyperlink. Note If the link contains unsafe characters, the link is either ignored or encoded depending on the sanitizer enforced by your administrator. For more information, go to Enforce legacy sanitizer.
      Assets	The target assets of the hyperlink. The assets are filtered as you type. Click the asset to which you want to link.
      Text to display	The display text that will be visible in the attribute. By default, this is the text that you selected.

   2. Click Save.
6. Click Save. Click out of the text field to save the content of the text field.

Remove a manually created hyperlink

You can remove manually created hyperlinks from text attributes.

Steps

1. Open an asset page.
2. Click in the text field that contains the hyperlink that you want to remove. Click a text attribute, for example, the definition, to edit the text.
3. Click anywhere on the hyperlinked text and click Unlink.
   
   The hyperlink is removed. If the hyperlink pointed to many assets, all links are removed.An action list appears.
4. Click Unlink.
   
   The hyperlink is removed. If the hyperlink pointed to many assets, all links are removed.
5. Click Save to save the content of the text field. Click out of the text field to save the content of the text field.