Manual hyperlinking

If you want more control over hyperlinks, you can manually create hyperlinks to assets to guide others to or from a specific asset. This is especially useful if automatic hyperlinking is disabled or if the text you want to link to an asset doesn't match the name of the target asset. You can also manually create hyperlinks to webpages.

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Create a hyperlink to an asset

You can manually create a hyperlink to an asset in a text attribute of an asset page.

Steps

  1. Open the asset.
  2. In the text field containing the text you want to convert into a hyperlink, click . Click the text attribute containing the text you want to convert into a hyperlink.
    The text editor opens.
  3. Select the text, and then click (Insert/edit link)(Link) → Link to asset.
    The Link to asset dialog box appears.
  4. Enter the required information.
    SettingDescription
    AssetAssets

    Name of the target asset to which you want to link the selected text. Assets are filtered as you enter a name.

    Tip 
    • To help you identify the correct asset, the domain of each asset is shown below the asset name in the drop-down list.
    • If you want to search for an asset by its full name in addition to its display name, clear the Only Search Display Name checkbox.
    • You can link to multiple assets by adding more than one name. When someone clicks a hyperlink that is linked to multiple assets, the linked assets are shown in a dialog box. They can then select one of the assets to open its asset page.
    Text to displayDisplay text for the hyperlink. By default, this is the text you selected.
    Note Links added using the Link to asset option aren't clickable in emails.
  5. Click Save.
  6. In the text editor, click Save.
  7. In the text editor, click the checkmark icon.

Create a hyperlink to a web address

In addition to creating a hyperlink to an asset, you can create a hyperlink to a web address in a text attribute of an asset page. Clicking such a hyperlink opens the web page in a new tab.

Steps

  1. Open the asset.
  2. In the text field containing the text you want to convert into a hyperlink, click . Click the text attribute containing the text you want to convert into a hyperlink.
    The text editor opens.
  3. Select the text, and then click (Insert/edit link)(Link) → Link to URL.
    The Link to URL dialog box appears.
    The Insert/Edit Link dialog box appears.
  4. Enter the required information.

    Setting

    Description

    URL

    Address of the target webpage to which you want to link the text you selected.

    Note If the address contains unsafe characters, it is either ignored or encoded depending on the sanitizer enforced by your administrator. For more information, go to Enforce legacy sanitizer.
    Text to displayDisplay text for the hyperlink. By default, this is the text you selected.
  5. Click Save.
  6. Optionally, edit the source code so that the hyperlink automatically opens in a new tab when clicked.
    1. In the text editor, click (Source code).
      The Source Code dialog box appears.
    2. After the href attribute, enter target ="_blank" .

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

    3. Click Save.
  7. In the text editor, click Save.
  8. In the text editor, click the checkmark icon.

You can edit a manually created hyperlink in a text attribute of an asset page.

Note Automatic hyperlinks can't be edited.

Steps

  1. Open the asset.
  2. In the text field containing the hyperlink you want to edit, click . Click the text attribute containing the hyperlink you want to edit.
    The text editor opens.
  3. Click anywhere within the hyperlinked text, and then click Edit.
    The Link to URL dialog box appears.
    The Insert/Edit Link dialog box appears.
  4. Edit the information.

    Field

    Description

    URL

    Address of the target webpage to which you want to link the text you selected.

    Note If the address contains unsafe characters, it is either ignored or encoded depending on the sanitizer enforced by your administrator. For more information, go to Enforce legacy sanitizer.

    Text to display

    		Display text for the hyperlink. By default, this is the text you selected.
  5. Click Save.
  6. In the text editor, click Save.
  7. In the text editor, click the checkmark icon.

You can remove a manually created hyperlink from a text attribute of an asset page.

Steps

  1. Open the asset.
  2. In the text field containing the hyperlink you want to remove, click . Click the text attribute containing the hyperlink you want to remove.
    The text editor opens.
  3. Click anywhere within the hyperlinked text, and then click Unlink.
  4. Click Save.
    The hyperlink is removed from the text. If the hyperlink pointed to many assets, all links are removed.
  5. Click the checkmark icon.
    The hyperlink is removed from the text. If the hyperlink pointed to many assets, all links are removed.