A hyperlink is a piece of text (an address) on a screen that will cause a connection to an object (web-page, Photo, computer program, file folder, Word document, etc.) that you can access from your computer. It acts the same way as a shortcut on your desktop, or a hot spot on an internet screen.

 

The RecordsKeeper can internally store items such as photographs, scanned images, spreadsheets and word processing documents in attachment fields. But for types of data that are more logically kept in other systems, such as financial transactions, or home inventory items, and for objects that are stored on the world-wide web, it stores hyperlinks (pointers) to these items and opens them for you when you click on the hyperlink.

 

Because there are thousands of possible hyperlinks, the characters used as a hyperlink address can be both long (many characters) and complex (unintelligible).

 

In order to overcome this, and to keep the screens a little neater, RecordsKeeper uses a short phrase to describe the type of hyperlink it has stored, and uses this phrase on most screens and reports.

 

This screen is used to maintain the phrases that are used.

 

When you establish a hyperlink on one of the data editing screens, you have the option of choosing one of the phrases on this screen as an over-ride to the hyperlink address itself.

 

You have complete control over the linkage descriptions by maintaining a list of those descriptions using this screen. Simply enter a new descriptor if one is needed, or delete one that is no longer of use.

 

Changing a descriptor on this screen will change how that descriptor appears on every other screen where it is used. Add as many new ones as you require. To delete one, click on the left-hand record selector button, then use the delete button on your keyboard. Note however that you will not be able to delete one of these descriptors if it is still in use with one of your hyperlink addresses.