Classic file types are no longer available for use as of January 2021. You can transition your classic files or download a PDF. Learn More

Source text link formatting

Completed
Request Demo

In classic documents, when we created a source text link in a document, partial sections of the text could be formatted differently.  For example, you could italicize a few words within a sentence and that formatting would carry through to the destination.  it doesn't appear that source text links in next gen can have more than one format.  Is this something that is coming, or will next gen not have this capability? 

-1

Comments

4 comments

Date Votes
  • Official comment
    Mike

    Hi all!

    Wanted to give a quick update here. A recent release to Wdesk included making paragraph text linking and link formatting flow through available. Both of these are also supported during transition as well. Thanks so much for your patience and feedback. Give us a holler if you have any questions in the meantime. Cheers!

  • Mike

    Hi Ben!

    Thanks as always for your contributions. I'm pleased to say that yes, this is definitely something that is coming to next gen, and fairly soon. I'll also add that this feature is part of some overall text and paragraph linking enhancements (mentioned here) which includes an improved text linking interface and formatting flow through. We anticipate these features to be released by the end of February, so definitely keep your eyes peeled on our What's New topic. I've also connected your request to our internal ticket to monitor as well.

    Let me know if there are any questions on the above or you need anything else. Thanks as always and keep up the good work!

    0
  • Ben Andrews

    Great to hear!  we'll keep our eyes open for the release.  Thanks, Mike.

    0
  • Ben Andrews

    Mike - thanks for the notification.  We've tested and the new functionality appears to be working as intended!  I also saw in the release notes that you can now create source links that span multiple paragraphs, which is exciting to see.  I wanted to mention a related enhancement request.  When we have a primary text document and link out to various dependent documents, users often complain when commenting that they can only highlight the full paragraph rather than a specific word or phrase.  If we started source linking multiple paragraphs or full pages of text, i think that annoyance would be even greater in that people would be highlighting full pages of text when leaving comments.  Is it on the roadmap to allow an inline comment to be placed on a destination text link?

    0

Please sign in to leave a comment.