 The term "active link" refers to any piece of plain text within an Article Window's content area which happens to be an Internet address (URL). Most commonly, it is a website or email address. When active links are turned on, double-clicking on this piece of text launches the Internet address.
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| For example, let's say you import an email message which contains the text "My new website is http://www.example.com". If you double-click on the text "http://www.example.com", your web browser will launch that URL.
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| If your imported message contains the text "My new email is john@example.com", then double-clicking on "john@example.com" will launch your email client software with that address in the message "To" field.
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| How Active Links Work
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| When Active URL Links are turned on, the link icon appears on the Status Bar.
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| To turn Active URL Links on or off, see the Articles tab of the Preferences Dialog Box (File Menu). When you turn links on, you may choose to use Visible or Invisible links. With invisible links, the link's text uses the existing font formatting used in your article. With visible links, the link's text changes to blue, underlined font formatting. In the latter case, links are easily recognizable, but previous font formatting may be lost.
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When the links are active, the link cursor  appears whenever the mouse is held over a clickable URL. Double-click on the link to launch it.
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| When you launch a URL, Personal Knowbase opens whichever Windows applications is configured for that type of URL. Most links open your default Web browser and send the URL to it. A mailto: URL should open your e-mail client application.
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| Links to Files
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| NOTE: | The preferred method for linking to files is to use hypertext links. For more information, see About Hypertext Links in Article Windows. The following paragraphs explain how to link to a file using active links. This method still works for backwards compatibility with pre-version 3.0 data files.
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| ( This section is grayed out to reflect that this method is depreciated and not recommended. )
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| A file:// URL indicates a file link and opens the file in whichever Windows application is associated with its file type.
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| If a file's path name includes spaces, you must enclose the file name in double-quotes to link to it. In that case, clicking on the file:// prefix opens the corresponding file. For example, to link to a file called "my file.txt" in the "My Documents" folder of your C: drive, the link is file://"c:\My Documents\my file.txt".
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| If no path name is included in a file link, Personal Knowbase uses the folder specified for Attachments from the Files tab of the Preferences Dialog Box (File Menu). For example, if your Attachments folder is c:\attachments, then the link file://"my file.txt" links to "c:\attachments\my file.txt".
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| You can also link to files in paths relative to the Attachments folder by using a ".\" in the path to refer to the Attachments folder. For example, if your Attachments folder is c:\attachments, and there is a folder under that called "linked files", then to link to "my file.txt" in that subfolder, the link could be file://".\linked files\my file.txt". This relative linking allows you to move your linked files without losing your links, as long as their relative locations do not change, by simply changing the Attachments folder.
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| See Also:
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| About Hypertext Links in Article Windows
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| About Article Attachments
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| Linking to a Web Address from Inside an Article
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| Turning On (or Off) Active Links in Articles
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