How to link a document to another document in the same book?

[dana_1216]

Hello, everyone.

Can someone please help me hyperlink a different document within a book? I am trying to hyperlink the word Support and have the viewer directed to the Support document which is in the same document.

I am trying the hyperlink feature but it seems I'm doing something wrong. I'm sorry in advance for the inconvenience.

[Bob_Niland]

Hypertext within a book is supposed to just work.

Heck, usually people are just using a Cross-Ref by $paratext, which also automatically is an in-book link.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

You need to make your xref to something within the Support.fm document - usually people point at the Heading or Title in it.

[Matt-Tech Comm Tools]

It sounds like you want to hyperlink to the word Support in a different FrameMaker document, within the same FrameMaker book. Is that correct?

If so, I suggest creating a spot cross-reference. This requires that you insert a Cross-Ref marker in or near the word Support (I recommend at the beginning of Support) and then in the other document, create a cross-reference to the marker.

This is how I cross-reference untitled graphics in FrameMaker - Working with Content, and where you'll find the writeup on spot xrefs on page 155.

[Barb Binder]

Hi @dana_1216:

FrameMaker has two types of Cross-references (X-refs): paragraph and spot. Most of the time we use paragraph X-refs because they are a one-step process, and only use the two-step spot X-refs when we need to target specific words within a paragraph that may potentially break across pages. Most of the time, we are referencing heads (titles, subheads, table titles and figure captions) that will remain on a single page (though that page may change) so a paragraph X-ref will add the marker that it needs to track the paragraph and the text referring the reader to that paragraph in a single step.

In your case, I would do as @Jeff_Coatsworth suggested: just replace the word support at the end of the paragraph with a paragraph X-ref to the title in the Support.fm file (presumably the word "Support" at the top of the first page of that file).

Note that FrameMaker will default to See Heading & Page which will add See "Support" on page x but you can modify the definition to just reference the title and nothing else so that it matches what you have now. Just click the edit button to the right of the Format list to modifiy the building blocks. 

~Barb