Insert a link to a web page or document

To insert a link:

  1. On the Edit Part screen, click the Insert link button.

  2. The page link screen appears.

  3. Select whether to create or remove a link from the part.

  4. To open the linked page or document in a separate window, enter a name for the window in the Open in another window named field.

  5. To display multiple linked pages or documents in the same separate window, enter the same window name in the Open in another window named field for each link to open in the window.

Note: To access the page link screen from the HTML editor, such as on the Helplets tab or in Email, click Insert link on the toolbar.

To create a link to another page on your website:

  1. Select Create link to Blackbaud Internet Solutions page.

  2. Browse to the page to link.

    • To link to a Blackbaud Internet Solutions page, you must have rights to view pages.

    • For more information about view rights, see Task Groups.

To create a link to a page defined in Sites & settings, a Communication Preferences Form, a web page version of an email message, or a desktop or mobile version of your content:

  1. Select Create link to special page.

  2. In the Page field, select the option to link.

  3. The home page, user login page, and privacy page you define in Sites & settings appear. For more information, seePage settings.

    • In addition to the user login page you define in Sites & settings, additional user login pages appear so you can select the password reset page on your website.

    • When you include this page link in email messages and an email recipient clicks the link, a secure page appears with a Forgotten Password field for the user to enter their email address.

    • This link remains active in the email for the user to take action to reset the password any time.

    • After the email address is submitted on the web page, another email sends to the user. That email contains another link that returns the user to the reset password page on your website.

  4. Pages that include a Communication Preferences Form appear. For more information, see theForm Types.

  5. When you use the HTML editor to design an email message, the View email message on web page option appears.

    • Select this to provide a way for email recipients to view your email design on a web page.

    • You do not manually create the page the email message appears on and you cannot open it in Pages & templates. The program automatically renders your HTML email design to display the message and you can only access it from the link in the message.

    • To test the link, send a test message. The link does not work when you preview the message.

  6. When you design a layout, Menu part, or Formatted Text and Images part, the View desktop version and View mobile version options appear.

    • You can create links to one or both options to allow users to toggle between the desktop and mobile versions of your content.

To include a link to the mobile version of your content, you must first create a mobile optimized layout and style sheet.

Note: For more information, seeStyle Sheets

To link to a specific location on the page:

  1. Select Create link to an anchor in this document.

  2. In the Anchor field, select the predefined anchor to link to.

To create another type of link:

  1. Select Create other type of link.

  2. In the Type field, select the type of link to create.

    • For example, select “ftp:,” “http:,” or “telnet.”

  3. In the URL field, enter the exact path to the page to link.

To create a link to a document on your website, such as an Adobe Acrobat portable document file (*.pdf) or a Microsoft Word document (*.doc):

  1. Select Create link to Blackbaud Internet Solutions document.

  2. Browse to the document to link.