"a name" anchors in Flare v3

[TA08]

I'm new to Flare and I would like to add named anchors to pages within Flare but am unable to locate any information on how to do this. I would like to use this functionality between topics (I have 27) and in between pages.

For example, if a user clicks on an a name link at the top of the page the link jumps down to where the target is further down the page or from one page to a name target on another page. Can anybody help, this is really starting to frustrate me?

Thank U

[KevinDAmery]

What you're looking for are called Bookmarks. You can insert them using the Insert menu. To link to it, you would insert a hyperlink: the add hyperlink dialog allows you to specify a bookmark as well as a topic file.

[TA08]

Thank you for your response KevinDAmery. When I add bookmarks to pages will the hyperlinks update automatically if content is changed/moved etc like it does when inserting a cross reference link?

[RamonS]

When you link to a bookmark the link will scroll the page so that the bookmark is at the top. The bookmark moves when you add more content before it. It marks a relative position in the topic. Deleting a bookmark will cause any link to turn into a dead link.

[doc_guy]

And with cross references, the name of the target is determined by the heading you are linking to, and if it changes, the cross reference changes as well. With a link, you set the link text, so there is no updating if the target heading changes.

You should also be aware that when you are linking to another topic, there is a bookmark button that you can use, as shown in the image below:



When you click the Bookmark button, you see a list of headings in the destination topic. You can select a a heading, and the bookmark is automatically created for you. You don't have to manually insert a bookmark at the destination heading in the target topic.

Note, however, that this button only helps you if your destination is a defined heading (h1-h5 or whatever), and won't automatically create bookmarks to other elements in the topic.