This tutorial is for the new, online project designer. The tutorial for the Desktop Designer is available here .

Link Point

Learn how the Link point can be used and see it in action with the sample projects.

What is the Link point?

The Button point can be used to create a link to a page within the open project or to navigate to a website or a Url Scheme .

Key Features

  • Can be used to link to a page within the current project.
  • Can be used to link to an external website, opened in the device's default browser.
  • Can be used to link to a URL Scheme to execute actions such as opening, sending, duplicating a session and much more.
  • Easily create a table of contents page with links to each page.

Link point animation

Creating a Table of Contents

One of the many uses of the Link point is to create links between the pages of a project to create a table of contents. A Table of Contents page can be added to your project using the Table of Contents tool, located in the Toolbox . This page will add a new page to the start of your project, with Link points or Button points to each page in the project.

Toolbox table of contents

Dynamic Navigation

The page and URL links can be populated using the values of other points to construct dynamic links. To add a dynamic reference to another point you will need to add the point's ID to the setting using the following format: <% PointId %> . For example, to dynamically construct a URL to call a phone number that is stored in an Edit point with the ID, BusinessPhoneNumber , the Link point's URL setting would be: tel:<%BusinessPhoneNumber%> .


Configuration and Settings

The Link point can be configured in the Mobile Data Anywhere Designer to customise its appearance and behaviour when pressed. See below for details on each of this point's properties.

Link point web properties

Link Settings

Label

This is the text that will be displayed for the Link point, which can be tapped to activate the link. When an image is added to a Link point, you can remove the caption to only display the image.

Page

Allows you to select a page from the current project which will be opened when the Link point is tapped on the mobile application.

URL

Allows you to set a URL which will be opened when the Link point is tapped on the mobile application. The URL can be a link to a website which will be opened on the device's default browser or it can be to a URL Scheme which can perform powerful functions such as creating, opening or sending a session and much more.

Font settings

Font settings allow you to customise the appearance of the text when displayed on a mobile device. This include options for Font Style, Size, Bold, Italic, Underline, Color and Text Alignment . A preview is provided to show how the text will appear.

Image Settings

The image property allows you to import an image into the point, to be displayed on a session.


Sample Projects

The Basic Points Sample project contains examples of how to use many of the various points that are available. This project also contains a page that demonstrates some of the ways that this point can be used in your projects.


Sample Projects
You can download the sample project for this tutorial or import the projects directly into your account.

Sample 1: Link Point

In the provided sample project, basic_point_samples.ppc there is a page for the Link point , which demonstrates how a Link point can be configured to link to pages and URL's. Open this project in the Mobile Data Anywhere Designer for a closer look at how each point has been customised on each point's properties window.


Link point sample