URL Format

URLs must be entered in the following formats:

URLs to Books
  • To go to another Book in your model, enter:
    B=[BookName]
  • To go to a BookMark in a Book in your current Model, enter:
    B=[BookName]#[BookMarkName]
  • To go to a Book in a different Model, enter:
    B=[BookName]&M=[ModelName]
  • To go to a BookMark in a Book in a different Model, enter:
    B=[BookName]#[BookMarkName]&M=[ModelName]

where [BookName], [BookMarkName], and [ModelName] are the actual names of your Books, BookMarks and Models.

URLs to web pages
  • To go to an external web page, enter:
    External:http://anyurl

    where anyurl is the name of your website.

  • To go to an external file like an HTML page on drive C, you must use / as the path separator throughout the URL string. Backslash is not recognized. The string must start with External: and what follows is passed as the file path to the Shell. Although the Shell accepts some alternative formats for file path, only this use of / will work here.
    External:file://C:/readme.htm
  • To display your own customized Web page, use the following format:
    System:mypage.htm

    where mypage.htm is actually the name of your own HTML file stored in the PCM directory on your IIS Web Server. By default this is held in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\PCM, although you can configure this to your own preference.

Several other URL parameters can be passed in a URL string.