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Insert a link to a web page or document

1. On the Edit Part screen, click the Insert link button. The page link screen appears.

Note: To access the page link screen from the HTML editor, such as on the Helplets tab or in Email, click Insert link on the toolbar.

2. Select whether to create or remove a link from the part.
To create a link to another page on your website, select Create link to Blackbaud NetCommunity page and browse to the page to link. To link to a Blackbaud NetCommunity page, you must have rights to view pages. For more information about view rights, see Task Groups.
To create a link to a page defined in Sites & settings, a web page version of an email message, or a desktop or mobile version of your content, select Create link to special page. In the Page field, select the option to link. The options that appear in this field generate in one of three ways.
The home page, login page, and privacy page you define in Sites & settings appear. For more information, see Page settings.
When you use the HTML editor to design an email message, the View email message on web page option appears. Select this to provide a way for email recipients to view your email design on a web page. You do not manually create the page the email message appears on and you cannot open it in Pages & templates. The program automatically renders your HTML email design to display the message and you can only access it from the link in the message.

Note: To test the link, send a test message. The link does not work when you preview the message.

When you design a layout, Menu part, or Formatted Text and Images part, the View desktop version and View mobile version options appear. You can create links to one or both options to allow users to toggle between the desktop and mobile versions of your content.

Note: To include a link to the mobile version of your content, you must first create a mobile optimized layout and style sheet. For more information, see Style Sheets

To link to a specific location on the page, click Create link to an anchor in this document. In the Anchor field, select the predefined anchor to link to.
To create another type of link, select Create other type of link. In the Type field, select the type of link to create. For example, select “ftp:,” “http:,” or “telnet.” In the URL field, enter the exact path to the page to link.
To create a link to a document on your website, such as an Adobe Acrobat portable document file (*.pdf) or a Microsoft Word document (*.doc), select Create link to Blackbaud NetCommunity document and browse to the document to link.
To remove an existing link from the part, select Remove Existing Link.
3. To open the linked page or document in a separate window, enter a name for the window in the Open in another window named field.

Tip: To display multiple linked pages or documents in the same separate window, enter the same window name in the Open in another window named field for each link to open in the window.

4. Click OK. You return to the Edit Part screen.