Hyperlinks are lost when placing one InDesign file into another

[Olivier35327949v8r9]

Hi,

I'm having an issue with hyperlinks. My indesign version si 19.0

I have a indd document "A". In this document "A", I import another indd document "B".

This imported indd document "B" contains hyperlinks wich work perfectly : 2 URLs and 1 phone number.

I dont see them in the indd document "A". They seem to be lost.

Please any help ?

[BobLevine]

That's how it works. Interactivity does not come along for the ride.

[Olivier35327949v8r9]

Thanks, but... It used to work previously. I have examples where it worked. So ?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Placed INDD file is like any other placed file - it's a separate entity and its contents isn't a direct part of the document it's placed in. 

Of course, its contents will be integrated in the finall PDF.

[Olivier35327949v8r9]

Thanks but obviously it is not, that is why I opened this threat.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Can you share some example files? 

INDD A + B + PDF you've exported. 

[Mike Witherell]

Allow me to respond to your threat: Placed .indd files inside another .indd file behaves as static artwork only.

[Olivier35327949v8r9]

Thanks!

I'm OK with this, but why did it work previously? Just a very lucky random? Or did this feature vanish with a version update?

Or --mabye-- is there another way of cascading an indd file inside another one and still keep the hyperlinks?

[Mike Witherell]

Placed .indd files inside another .indd file behaves as static artwork only. This behavior has always been the same.

That shouldn't stop you from building/copy/pasting the hyperlink from the embedded indd file into a layer on top of the placed artwork layer.

[Olivier35327949v8r9]

Mike

This is weird. It used to work for plenty of documents I created for years! I can't understand this.

[BobLevine]

Did they show up in the hyperlinks panel or did the hyperlinks get auto-detected by a PDF reader?

[Olivier35327949v8r9]

Since I cant reproduce the fact now, I cant tell if they were in the hyperlink panel. I just saw it stopped to work when I used more than 1 link, this morning. So far, the only PDF reader I used to check was AdobeReader.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

They never auto-imported from placed object. 

Maybe you've been using some tool to copy them? Scripting something like this wouldn't be a big deal. 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Mike

This is weird. It used to work for plenty of documents I created for years! I can't understand this.

By @Olivier35327949v8r9

Hyperlinks will work in the finall PDF - but they are not auto-magically imported to the "parent" INDD file.