If you have a datafile set up to export as an iPod
Notes folder, you can add link text in HTML format to the Freeform
Text Area of any record, which will appear as an active link when the
file based on that record is viewed on the iPod. You can add multiple
links to a single record, if desired.
You can link to other text files on the iPod, which is useful if you’ve split a large amount of text into more than one file. The HTML format for this kind of link is:
<a href="Name of other note
file">Text for the
link</a>.
You can also link to song files on the iPod. The HTML format for this kind of link is:
<a href="song=Name of song file">Text for the link</a>.
iData 3 will help you automate the creation of these links.
1. Open a datafile
that is set up to export as an iPod Notes folder, and go to the record
in which you want the link to appear.
2. Click in the
Freeform Text Area where you want the link to appear.
3. Click Insert
Link in iPod Note Record under
the Tools menu (or type control-command-option-N).
This will open a window in which you can specify the link information.
4. To create an
HTML link to another note, select the Link
to the following iPod Note File: radio button and select the
note name in the popup menu.
Or, to create an HTML link to a song that you have on your
iPod, select the Link to the
following song: radio button, and, in the text field immediately
below it, type the name of the song or other sound file that you want
to play when the link is clicked. If you do not want the "Now Playing"
screen to appear when the song is played, enable the Don't show "Now Playing" screen
checkbox.
5. In the text field
at the bottom of the window, type the text that you want to show up as
a link. In the case of a song, this might be the name of the song, or
something like Play "Stairway to
Heaven".
6. Click the OK button, and the HTML link will be
inserted in the Freeform Text Area. When this datafile is exported to
the iPod, that text will function as a link that will either bring up
the specified text file or play the specified song.
