Hyperlinks

This tab allows you to set expressions to connect with external files (e.g. PDFs, Images and text files).

In the expression field you have to provide a complete path to the actual file. Depending on how you have it entered in the table it might be that the column stores only file names with extensions (e.g. [COLUMN_NAME].txt ). On the other hand you may have a complete path to the file in which case you will simply provide a link in Expression field. As always names of the columns are surrounded with square brackets.

Please Note:

The location that your Expression is pointing to has to be accessible to the DataPump Hyperlinking service. For more information about Datapump Hyperlink service, please visit: Hyperlinking

Hyperlinking external resources i.e. images, PDF documents to database records can be a tricky task. In order to utilize the hyperlinks you have to:

Configure the hyperlink expression
Save the map and reload it to make Earthlight client aware of the changes

If both, the Expression and DataPump Hyperlinking service, are configured correctly, after executing Inspect on the map you will be able to see a little page symbol with a number of existing hyperlinks next to the inspected record on the Inspection pane.

Clicking on the page icon will expand a dropdown list of existing hyperlinks.

If a hyperlink has no Display expression, then it will be displayed as record value (if a column name was provided) next to Name of the hyperlink in brackets.