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Introduction

What are links?

Links are references to files located on the internet, on your computer, or in the currently open file. These files could be, for example, images.

The references can be found in documents 1 and 2 on the index card .

How are links detected?

You create a link using the AGS editor in one of the two documents, 1 and 2, on the tab . The document might look like this, for example:
Meier's Hans is mentioned in the deed of notary Schmitt dated May 12, 1687: [file:D:\Bilder\Urkunde_1.jpg]. A biography of the first Meier families can be found online [http://www.example.com/Genealogie/MEIER.html|Biographies].

(Message from P. MEIER dated March 28, 2007)

Links are entered in square brackets. They have one of the following forms:

form Description Example
[https:...|...] < Link to a file on the internet
[http:...|...] < Link to a file on the internet [https://omeganer.de|Omega website]
[file:...|...] Link to a file on the computer [file:C:\Fotos\Img-2141.jpg|Obere Mühle]
[local:...|...] Link to a file in the current file (local copy) [local:Img-2141.jpg|Upper Mill]
The part after the vertical bar | contains descriptive text about the link. This descriptive text and the vertical bar can also be omitted. The link would then have the form [local:Img-2141.jpg] .

The AGS editor helps you insert links to files and also allows you to create local copies of the referenced files (local links).

What are local links?

Files associated with the current record ( local: links) are searched for in a subfolder named REPO within the folder where the current record is stored. For example, if the current record is located in the folder C:\Omega-Daten\SCHMITT , then the files referenced by the local: links are searched for in the folder C:\Omega-Daten\SCHMITT\REPO .

The advantage of local: links is that the referenced files are included in backups of the patient file and restored along with the index cards when the file is restored . This allows you to share the patient file, including all referenced files, with a third party. However, copying the files to the REPO folder requires more storage space.

However, if references are made to files in another location, the links will usually lead nowhere if these files are moved or deleted, or if the file is copied to another computer where the files do not exist.

Overall, before using links, you should carefully consider whether or not you want to use local links, and how this usage corresponds to the purpose of the directory.

Clicking on links

The menu bar of the tab contains a button labeled with a link symbol. Clicking this button with the left mouse button opens the list of links contained in documents 1 and 2. You must first have entered the links into the documents as described above.

The list shows the path to locally stored files. The columns of the list contain

  1. the number of the document containing the link (1 or 2),
  2. the description of the link, if one has been assigned, and
  3. the link itself.
Clicking on one of the lines will open the file to which the link refers using the program that is set up by default in Windows for the respective file type.

Processing links in reports

Special considerations for output to RTF and HTML files

For all output formats except RTF file and HTML file, the link is output as text [...|...] as it was entered in the document.

When analyzing data in RTF and HTML formats, links within the documents are not treated like regular text: links to document files ( .doc , .rtf , .odt , .txt ) are embedded, while links to other files create hyperlinks. If the linked files are image files ( .jpg , .jpeg , .bmp , .gif , .png ), the images are also displayed directly within the RTF or HTML file.

Clicking a hyperlink in the created RTF or HTML file will open the file to which the link refers using the program that is set up by default in Windows for that file type.

Please note that the linked files are not embedded in the RTF or HTML file, but merely references to files on your computer. If you share the created RTF or HTML file with a third party, the recipient will not be able to open the files or view the images. However, you can convert the RTF file into a PDF file with embedded images and then share the PDF. You can do this, for example, with the free program PDFCreator or using the corresponding function in your word processing program.

Embedding documents only works with Microsoft Word and not with OpenOffice and LibreOffice.

To delete the links in Microsoft Word, you can find the corresponding commands under Edit | Links in Microsoft Word 2003 and under Prepare | Edit links to files in Microsoft Word 2007.

Special features of the expression

If you print a report from Omega containing documents with links to images, these images will not print. Omega's printing capabilities do not allow this. Instead, you can create the report as an RTF file , open it with a word processor, and print from there.

References

PDFCreator