

To make sure that all the URLs used within the PDF are real hyperlinks leading to the correct link, the user clicks on Link and from there selects Auto-Create Web Links from URLs.Īfter enabling the Auto-Create Web Links from URLs all links are clickable and open in a pop-up as expected in the viewable rendition after uploading a new version of the document. If the PDF does not contain any URL links, the below message returns from the selection.From the Link at the top of the page select View Web Links from the drop-down menu.Click Edit PDF after opening the source document.

In order to check this the following steps are recommended: To check if a PDF does not contain hyperlinks, the user has to have the Adobe Acrobat Pro DC full license. The feature Create links from URLs auto-scans documents and if a URL is found, then Adobe displays the URL as a clickable hyperlink. This feature is an Adobe display preference that can be seen in the Preferences -> General menu. These links work when a user views the source document in Adobe due to the setting Create links from URLs enabled by default, but not in the Viewable Rendition in Vault. If a user copies and pastes URLs onto the source file, but the URLs are not made hyperlinks, Vault treats these links as plain text without leading to the correct URL.

Hovering over the links in the index file shows the absolute path is stored rather than the relative path from the location of the index file and so the links break as the person will have another folder structure than the creator.Why hyperlinks do not work in Vault PromoMats and Vault Medical?Ī user can upload PDFs with clickable links (hyperlinks) that lead to an external URL if needed. However when the distribution is unpacked and the index PDF is opened by a person other than the creator the links don't work. The creator can correctly access the folders/documents via the "index" file. The distribution can then be sent, unpacked and all components accessed via the one index file.

The idea is to create a complete distribution (one zip file holding the tree structure) with index file (in PDF), folders and documents in the various folders. The index file sits in the "root" folder together with all the folders that hold the various documents. We create an "index" file in Word that holds hyperlinks to folders on the local Windows file system.
