Link Element
The Link Element allows you to provide a hyperlink to a specified URL.
You can specify a text string to be displayed on the form and when a user clicks on or taps this text, your form will automatically attempt to connect to the specified URL. The new web page will open in the same window as your form, use the browser's back button to return to the form.
Once you have placed a Link Element on a page, you can edit the Element's properties to configure the Element for your requirements. Select the Element on the page to display its properties in the Properties Pane.
The following properties are available:
Visible and Disabled Properties
Text
Allows you to specify the text you want to be displayed on the form. Users will click on or tap this text to activate the link.
Alternatively, you can read the text to be displayed in from a Datasource, using an input mapping. This input mapping is available here on the Appearance tab within the Text property; this Element doesn't have a separate Data tab. There is no output mapping available for this property since the user cannot edit the value on the finished form.
If you specify an input mapping, the mapping will be displayed, in the Form Design workspace, in the format {<datasource>.<dataset>.<dataitem>} in place of the text and the in-line editor will be disabled, since you don't need to be able to edit the text as this will be supplied from the datasource. For example:
You may need to reload the form to display the input mapping. The mapping is only shown in the Form Studio and isn't displayed on the published form.
For more information about specifying input and output mappings refer to the
URL
Allows you to specify the URL to be launched when the user clicks on this link at runtime. If the specified web page is outside the form, you must include the full URL, e.g. 'http://www.mywebsite.com' and not just 'www.mywebsite.com'.
Alternatively, you can read the URL in from a Datasource using an input mapping. This input mapping is available here on the Appearance tab within the URL property; this Element doesn't have a separate Data tab. There is no output mapping available for this property since the user cannot edit the value on the finished form.
For more information about specifying input and output mappings refer to the
Behaviour Category
Open in New Tab
Determines whether the linked page is opened in a new tab within the browser or uses the existing tab. If this property is selected, the new page will open in a new tab.
Styles Category
Text
Allows you to assign a style to the Element, e.g. to set the font type, size and colour.