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The Link List tool can automatically create a variety of different lists of hyperlinks to topics and insert them in your topic. These lists are dynamic. This means that they are not created when you insert them, but every time you publish your project. This means that the list is always up to date at the time of publishing.

The tool is located in the Insert Object section at the right end of the Write tab:

LinkListsIcon

How to use the Link List tool

Opening the tool displays this dialog:

LinkListDialog

Just select the list type (see further below for a reference) and configure your settings:

Dialog settings:

Exclude this topic:	The current topic is not included in the link list.
Bullet list:	Displays the list as a bulleted list. Otherwise it will just be displayed as a series of paragraphs.
Changed date:	Includes the modification date of the referenced topics, in the selected format.
Fallback text:	If a link list happens to be empty, because no links qualify for the specified criteria, this text is inserted instead.

The list is inserted as a placeholder!

Note that the list is not generated when you insert it. You will only see a placeholder in the topic editor. The actual list is generated when you publish your project so that the topics it contains are always up to date.

List types and list formatting

Available list types:

Siblings of this chapter:	Links to all the topics in the current chapter on the same level as the topic in which you are inserting the list. You will generally want to exclude the current topic from this list.
Sub-topics of this chapter:	Includes all the sub-TOC-entries of the current topic, if there are any.
Anchors within this topic:	Links to all anchors in the same topic and creates a Mini-TOC for navigation within the topic. The caption of the link will be all text from the corresponding anchor to the end of the anchor paragraph.
Topics modified within last:	All the topics that have been modified/edited within the last X days. You need to specify the number of days.
Topics modified between:	All topics modified/edited between two specified dates.

List formatting:

The formatting of the list is generated automatically and based on the formatting of the placeholder. The easiest way to achieve this is to apply a paragraph style to the placeholder. Then the list will be formatted with that style. Otherwise just select the placeholder and then format it with the Font and Paragraph dialogs in the Write tab.

Examples

(A) Link list with all siblings in this chapter, excluding self, no date:

Supported hyperlink types

Inserting topic links

Inserting Internet links

Inserting file links

Contextual Links from Applications

Linking to PDF files

Linking to WebHelp Topics

Linking to eWriter topics

Inserting script links

Editing and formatting links