Creating and editing hotspots

Creating a hotspot defines a rectangular area in one document that is hyperlinked to another document. When a user clicks inside the hotspot, the viewer shows the hyperlinked document. This can be useful for linking any type of hierarchical document set: overview maps to detailed maps, assembly drawings to subassembly or part drawings, site plans to building plans, schematic diagrams to detail diagrams, and so on.

A document may contain an unlimited number of hotspots. Text for reference can also be assigned to a hotspot. Hotspots may be created for the DWG, DGN, TIFF, and PDF file formats.

Note    Viewing and navigating hotspots is supported in Web Access, but creating hotspots is not supported.

Note    Hotspot information is stored separate from the document to which it refers. If the scale or coordinate space of a drawing is changed, the hotspot information is not changed accordingly and must be manually updated.

Before you begin

Creating and editing hotspots requires that AutoVue 2D Professional be the active viewer for the current document. For information on configuring the BlueCielo viewer for different file formats, see the Changing viewers.

To create a hotspot:

1. While viewing the document within which you want to create a hyperlink, click the Edit Hotspots toolbutton . The hotspot toolbar appears.
2. Click the New button . The cursor changes shape to crosshairs .
3. Click and drag a rectangle in the document to specify the hotspot outline. A shaded rectangle with square grips appears.
4. Click the Set Info button . The Hotspot Information dialog appears.
5. Click the browse button . The Select Documents dialog appears.
6. Select a document to link to the hotspot and click OK. The path and file name of the selected document appears in the Hotspot Information dialog.
7. Enter optional descriptive text in Description.
8. Click OK to save your changes.
9. Click the Edit Hotspots toolbutton again to hide the hotspot toolbar.

To edit a hotspot:

1. Click the Edit Hotspots toolbutton . The hotspot toolbar appears. All existing hotspots appear as shaded rectangles.
2. To move a hotspot, move the cursor into the hotspot until the cursor becomes a four-sided arrow .

1. Click and drag the hotspot to the new location.

3. To resize a hotspot, move the cursor over the grip closest to the part of the hotspot that you want to resize until the cursor becomes a two-sided arrow . The arrowheads indicate the directions in which you can resize the hotspot with the selected grip. If you want to resize the hotspot in a different direction, move the cursor over a different grip.

1. Click and drag the grip to resize the hotspot into the shape and size that you want.

4. To edit the hotspot hyperlink information, select the hotspot that you want to edit and perform steps 4 through 8 above.