PUBLISHER 2 PDF document linking to one page or section from multiple sources within a document with return to link source

[DavidMac]

I am creating my first Affinity Publisher project which is a cook book. It will be exported as a PDF with live linking. At various places the reader will encounter special techniques or ingredients.  I want to be able to provide them with a link to a page or section within the document which describes this in detail should they so wish. When finished I need to return them to the place in the document from which they triggered the link. The difficulty I am facing is that the one page or section linked to could be called from any one of many different places and would need to 'know' to which one it should return. In simple terms I need something equivalent to the 'back' button in a browser. I have looked at all the AP help files and tutorials on hyperlinks I can find but this is eluding me entirely. I really would appreciate some help with this.

[MikeTO]

Affinity can't be used to create interactive PDF files. You can create hyperlinks to anchors but you can't add javascript to a hyperlink to go to the previous page.

Most PDF viewers include a command to return to the previous page but many users aren't aware of these features so I can see why you might want to include it. One rather crude option that would work if a special ingredient is used in only a limited number of recipes is just to list the recipes on the ingredient page so the user could click the one they wanted to 'return' to.

[DavidMac]

Thank you Mike. Although that is not quite what I had hoped to hear you have expressed it with admirable clarity.

Your 'crude' option is maybe not so crude. It's definitely worth consideration.

Another crude option that had occurred to me would be to link to,p

[DavidMac]

Oooops. Managed to post before finishing. I am a pitiably inept typist. 🙁

Another crude option might be to link to an external pdf file(s) containing my ingredient and other descriptive pages. This would then (I think) open in another window and when finished could be simply closed leaving the reader at the same place in the main document. A bit like linking to an external page from a website. It's clumsy because instead of a single file the book would need to be a folder containing several files. 

Ho hum ..... back to the drawing board ......... 🤔