Creating Document, Database, and View Links

Links are pointers to other documents, views, or Lotus Notes databases. If want to send a mail message and refer to a page in the Help database, you can create a document link in your mail message. When the recipient receives your mail, he can click the Document Link icon and see the page to which you are referring.

Links work the same way that hypertext works in the Help database except that an icon represents the link. There are three types of Lotus Notes links that you can create and include in your mail messages or Lotus Notes documents (see Table 16.1).

Table 16.1. Types of Links
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Document LinkConnects to another Lotus Notes document. It can be a mail message or a document ...

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