How can I repeat a link on every page of a chapter

[MoonPigeon]

Hi! I have FrameMaker book with a chapter containing a list of definitions and abbreviations.  On the first page of the chapter, I created an alphabet list with links to paragraph cross-references (I created a paragraph style for the start of each letter section) and each letter is a link to that section.  It looks like this:

It works great and I want to repeat it on every page of the chapter - is this possible in FrameMaker? I know how to do it in the pdf, that's not what I'm looking for. 

Thanks!

Karen

[LinSims · Accepted solution]

I think if you copy and paste that line of links into a frame on the master page that it will work. You'd want to be sure to move your flow frame down so that the xref frame could be at the top and not interfere with your text. You also should make sure the frame has no tag and is not autoconnected.

ETA: I do not think you can click on the links while IN FrameMaker (no ctrl+alt+click), but I think they'll work once you publish to PDF. 

[Bob_Niland]

MP content works. Having it be different for each Chapter could be a bit more challenging.

PDF out is fine, but having it flow into HTML output won't work.

[LinSims]

I think they only want it for the one chapter, though, and it sounds like the only output they're worried about is PDF.

[Bob_Niland]

Yeah, it doesn't work in print either 😉

Another idea I had also doesn't work: putting the nav links, as Xrefs, in a text frame in a named RefPage frame that is invoked, on any page needed, by a ParaTag variant using FrameAbove. The nav list text appears, but isn't hypertext in the PDF.

When I had this requirement in a recent project, the Navbar-to-Glossary concept was abandoned entirely. Instead, every use of every Gl term was itself a spot Xref to where that term was principally discussed. How it was done is not something I'd generally recommend. Still waiting to see if some future FM implements the open feature request (FRMAKER-2294) for proper spot Xref (Xref by <$markertext>).

[LinSims]

Come to think of it, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that one or more of Shlomo's timesavers handles this sort of thing.

[Bob_Niland]

At a glance, I don't see it there. But more broadly, single-source multi-output apps like FM need to handle this in the standard product. In this case, FM hypertext needs an attribute field for each link that is a hovertip in PDF, flows to HTML as <abbr or title=, and also works to the eBook formats…

…and then we run into intractable display agent issues - my phone even has a stylus, and it is comatose on hovertip content actually present.