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Adding Links

Links should always be generated by navigating to the content in order to generate a dependency tag for the link and ensure no links are broken when pages or sections are moved or renamed. Users can navigate to any page on any site within the University CMS by selecting the Production environment when navigating to the page as long as the page has been published to the production server. In contrast, they can ONLY navigate to content that they have access to update if navigating via the Staging environment. 

Watch the video (10:00) and review the accompanying instructions.

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    1. Access the editable region and highlight the text (A) that will be turned into a link.

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    2. Click on the Insert/Edit link tool (B) and click the Browse button (C) to open the Select File window.   

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    3. When linking to content within a different site or within the same site but to which you do not have editing access, select Production (D). Otherwise, leave it as Staging. 

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    4. When linking within the same site, click on the site name (E)  in the breadcrumb (shown site name will be different for each site). When linking to a different site in the University CMS, click on the word Sites (F) in the breadcrumb. The alphabetic list of sites (G) will appear. Double-click on the site name.  

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    5. Navigate to and click on the page or document you are linking to and click Insert (H). The dependency tag (I) will appear in the URL field (J). 

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    6. When linking to a page within the University CMS, even if it is in a different site, leave the Target dropdown (K) as None (L). When linking to a document (PDF, Word, etc.) or to an external site that is not part of the University of South Carolina, select New Window (M).  

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