Importing a page with hyperlinks

[Driverlenny]

Working in Affinity Publisher and have a page which has hyperlinks which I am copying to a new project and when I do this the hyperlinks do not copy over to the new project.  Help 🥺

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @Driverlenny.

Are you trying to copy a page from one Publisher project to another Publisher project?

How are you trying to copy it? I think that Document > Add Pages from File might work, but I'm not sure any other method would.

[Driverlenny]

Hey there Will.  Thanks for the response.  Yes the page if being combined with other pages in Affinity Publisher.  No outside import.  

The community org I am working with is having each page completed individually then combined into document.  

The reason for this method is because of multiple people working on different pages of the document at once. 

We couldn't figure out how to allow multiple people work on the combined document without people saving over others work.

I hope that un muddys the picture of what we are trying to do and thanks in advance for any help you may have and is appreciated 🙂

[walt.farrell]

You didn't say how you copy the page. That's important.

Was it via Add Pages From File, and was the file you're adding from a .afpub file?

[Driverlenny]

The pages are being copied with the add pages from a file in Affinity 

[Driverlenny]

The page copies perfectly ....just without the hyperlinks tho 

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, Driverlenny said:

The pages are being copied with the add pages from a file in Affinity 

And the source you're copying from is another .afpub file?

[Driverlenny]

Yes it is another affinity publisher file.  I have attached it to this message 

 

 

Pipeline Cover Page - March 10 2022.aftemplate

[walt.farrell]

Thanks. It's a bit odd that it's a .aftemplate file rather than a .afpub file, but I don't think that should really matter. I'll take a look at it.

[walt.farrell]

I just did an Add Pages From File and added page 1 of your .aftemplate file into a new .afpub document, and the Hyperlinks are all there:

Note that all of the page hyperlinks are to page 1 of the .aftemplate file, so when I add that file as page 2 in my document, they are now all pointing to page 2.

That seems odd (and perhaps not what you're trying to accomplish), but correct for what the .aftemplate file contains.

[Driverlenny]

Thanks for the feedback 🙂. Each button at the bottom, the feature in the middle, and the Facebook and Twitter icons are hyperlinked to the corresponding pages.  

A couple of questions:

1. Would you recommend not saving pages as export as templates?  Proper method of saving as a apub file?

2. The way we are compiling the newsletter with a person working on a single page and then combining them all once complete.  Is this the best way to approach this?  Any suggestions for an alternative method?

We are still learning and appreciate the help ☺️

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, Driverlenny said:

Each button at the bottom, the feature in the middle, and the Facebook and Twitter icons are hyperlinked to the corresponding pages. 

The Facebook and Twitter buttons are certainly hyperlinked appropriately. I'm not sure what you mean by "are hyperlinked to the corresponding pages". That file simply supplies one page, and the hyperlinks are to itself. That makes them rather useless.

When you add it to another file, the hyperlinks will still be to that same page (and, again, useless as far as I can see). They are there, but you'll need to edit them if they are supposed to go to some different page.

13 minutes ago, Driverlenny said:

Would you recommend not saving pages as export as templates?  Proper method of saving as a apub file?

Yes, simply saving a .afpub file is better. A .aftemplate file will work, but you're not using it for the purpose a template file usually has.

 

14 minutes ago, Driverlenny said:

The way we are compiling the newsletter with a person working on a single page and then combining them all once complete.  Is this the best way to approach this?  Any suggestions for an alternative method?

That's probably your best approach for now. But you need to think about what you're doing with those hyperlinks.

I'm also curious why you say that they don't copy over. They do, for me, so maybe you mean something I don't understand.

[Driverlenny]

So if I am understanding correctly that the hyperlinks at the bottom that correspond to a particular page in the combined document should be inputted after all the pages are compiled rather than before compiling the pages?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Driverlenny said:

So if I am understanding correctly that the hyperlinks at the bottom that correspond to a particular page in the combined document should be inputted after all the pages are compiled rather than before compiling the pages?

They can't be created before the pages are compiled, because each can only point to page 1 in a 1-page document. And when the pages are compiled and the included document's page becomes page 2, the hyperlink will be adjusted to point to page 2. And it will still point only to itself.

If you have, say, 10 pages altogether, something like this might work (it also might not; I haven't tried it).

1. Create a 10-page template file, with nothing on each page except the bottom links, which you have setup to point to page 1, page 2, page 3, etc.
2. Each contributor Opens his copy of the template.
3. The contributor who is doing page 1 puts their stuff on page 1, leaving the bottom alone, and leaving the other pages unchanged, and saves a .afpub file.
4. The contributor who is doing page 2 puts their stuff on page 2, leaving the bottom alone and leaving the other pages unchanged, and saves.
5. Etc.

At the end, you create your new document, with 10 blank pages. You then "Add Pages from File" and copy page 1 from the first file before page 1.

You then "Add Pages from File" again, and copy page 2 from the second file before page 2.

Continue until you're done. You then have 10 pages that should (I hope) point correctly to the other pages, and 10 blank pages at the end that you can delete.

Alternatively, and simpler, just leave the page-to-page links and text off all of the pages. And create that block of links once when you're done, and paste it onto all the pages.