Outliner/PIM roll call: Fall 2012

Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 18, 2012 at 08:50 AM

Eduardo Mauro wrote:
>There is a
>simpler way. Just add “sulkb” to a file named Protocols.txt. You will find in CT
>folder. Then you can use it as an URL.

Cool! Thanks Eduardo, that was easy enough.

Just for other people’s benefit, here are the steps how to do this:
1. Go to ConnectedText folder (probably in “My Documents”, open protocols.txt and add “sulkb” to the list. I presume you have to restart CT for this to be recognised.
2. Open Surfulater, go to the body of an article you want to link to from CT, right-click, select Copy as > Plain External Link.
3. In a CT topic in edit mode, type [[$ and this will bring up the pull-down list of commands. Choose [[$URL: and paste in the Surfulater link. At the end of the link type “|yourdescription]]. E.g. [[$URL:sulkb://kb=PhD,Fid=5354,Rid=7460|Press Release]]
4. Now switch to view mode, click on it, and it should launch Surfulater and open the exact article.

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>From my part I admit that I feel almost terrorised at the markup involved, in terms of interrupting the flow. That said, I could just copy the link and do the markup later.

Yes, this is a common complaint about working with wikis and CT in particular. However, I think some of this is down to perceptions. A string of command like that looks like intimidating gibberish (which disappears in view mode though). But actually once you get used to the look of it, it might be quicker or at least the same as doing this in Word, where you still need to 1) highlight the text, 2) click on the insert menu, 3) click on the hyperlink button, 4) paste in the address, 5) click OK (and of course do the copy in Surfulater beforehand).

But enough of CT here! :) This thread was supposed to be Outliner/PIM roll call: Fall 2012!