A link hotspot links to another document, view, folder, database, or URL. You must be in a rich-text field (a field that allows text, objects, file attachments, and pictures) to create a link hotspot. A link hotspot has blue underlined text.

An action hotspot launches an action. It works like a button, but it looks like a link. For example, you can add an action hotspot in an e-mail message that will send an auto-reply back to you. You must be in a rich-text field (a field that allows text, objects, file attachments, and pictures) to create an action hotspot. An action hotspot has blue underlined text.

You must be in Read mode to test a hotspot.

Click any of the following:

• To create link hotspots
• To create action hotspots
• To format hotspots
• To remove hotspots

1. Put the document in Edit mode.

2. Select text to act as a link.

3. Choose Create - Hotspot - Link Hotspot.

4. Click the Hotspot Info tab in the "Hotspot Resource Link" properties box.

5. Follow the following procedures to create a:

• URL link to a Web site
• Link to an anchor, document, view, or database
• Named element link

1. In the Content section, choose URL in the Type field.

2. Enter the full URL address in the Value field, for example http://www.ibm.com.

3. If the link has to point to a certain frame, specify it in Frame (for example, Right, Left, Center).

Notes

• If you don't want specific text to act as a link, enter the URL right in your document. By default, Notes turns URLs into hotspots on your machine. To turn off this feature, choose File - Preferences - User Preferences - Basics - Additional Options, and de-select "Make Internet URLs into hotspots."
  Macintosh OS X users: Notes - Preferences - User Preferences.
• You can specify a formula to control the action of the hotspot by clicking the formula (@) button or paste a named element from your clipboard by clicking the paste button. For more information, see Formula Language if you have installed Lotus Domino Designer 6 Help. Or, go to the Documentation Library on the Lotus Developer Domain to download or view Lotus Domino Designer 6 Help.

1. Open the item to link to and choose Edit - Copy as Link - Anchor, Document, View or Database; go back to the document with the hotspot.

2. In the "Hotspot Resource Link" properties box, in the Content section, choose Link in the Type field.

3. Click the paste button in the Contents section (this defaults to the link pasted on your clipboard).

4. If the link has to point to a certain frame, specify it in Frame (for example, Right, Left, Center). Note that you cannot specify a frame for a database link hotspot.

Named element link

A named element link jumps to a specific design element in a database (for example, a view or folder).

1. In the Content section, choose "Named Element" in the Type field.

2. Choose the kind of Named Element to create in the field next to Type (for example, View).

3. Click the folder button.

4. Specify the database in the Database field; specify the type of the named element in the field below Database; click OK. For example, if you choose to create a View-Named Element, the field below Database would be called View. In that field you would choose which view the link would point to, for example, ($Calendar).

5. If the link has to point to a certain frame, specify it in Frame (for example, Right, Left, Center).

Note You can specify a formula to control the action of the hotspot by clicking the formula (@) button or paste a named element from your clipboard by clicking the paste button. For more information, see Formula Language if you have installed Lotus Domino Designer 6 Help. Or, go to the Documentation Library on the Lotus Developer Domain to download or view Lotus Domino Designer 6 Help.

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To create action hotspots

1. Put the document in Edit mode.

2. Select the text to act as an action hotspot.

3. Choose Create - Hotspot - Action Hotspot.

4. Click the Hotspot Info tab in the "Action Hotspot" properties box.

5. If the link has to point to a certain frame, specify it in Frame (for example, Right, Left, Center).

6. Click "Add Action" (in Programmer's pane at bottom of window) to choose which action the hotspot should perform; specify your preferences accordingly. For more information, see Table of simple agent actions.

7. Choose File - Save to save the hotspot's properties.

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To format hotspots

1. Put the document in Edit mode.

2. Click the hotspot.

3. Follow the procedures in this table to format the hotspot.

	What do you want to do?	Procedure
	Show a hotspot's border	Choose Hotspot - Hotspot Properties. Click the Hotspot Info tab. Select "Show border around hotspot."
	Change a hotspot's action	Choose Hotspot - Edit Hotspot. Go through same steps as creating action hotspots.
	Change text color of hotspot	Choose Hotspot - Hotspot Properties. Click the Font tab. Choose a color from the Color field. Note You can customize colors by using the color wheel button in the top right corner of the Color box.
	Move a hotspot	Select the hotspot. Choose Edit - Cut. Click where you want to place the hotspot. Choose Edit - Paste.
	Change type or destination of link hotspot	Choose Hotspot - Hotspot Properties. Click the Hotspot Info tab. Adjust type or destination to your preference.

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To remove hotspots

Do one of the following:

• To delete the action of a hotspot but keep the text of the hotspot, click the hotspot, and choose from the menu Hotspot - Remove Hotspot.
• To delete the action of a hotspot and the text of the hotspot, select the hotspot, and choose from the menu Edit - Delete.

See Also

Editing documents
Opening links, buttons, hotspots, and sections
Linking to other data
Adding graphics to a document
To turn URLs into hotspots