Hyperlinks in ibook Author

I've just started using ibook author. I'm trying to create an ebook. I want to put in a hyperlink. I have highlighted my sentence I want to use as the hyperlink. I go to where you can add a hyperlink, copy and paste the link I want to use.
The problem: when you click on the hyperlink, it takes you to a different location (one that doesn't work - says it's in a loop). The link that this hyperlink goes to does not match to what I copied and pasted into the original hyperlink.

Review your process with this iBA user tip: iBA Tips and Tricks 01 - see the section titled 'Hyperlink two words/text:'

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Hyperlinks in iBooks Author preview

I have created a hyperlink in iBooks Author (1.0.1) and it shows up and works perfectly when I click on it - i.e. Safari launches and displays the expected page on my iMac. When I send (Preview) the book in question to my iPad 2 (running iOS 5.0.1) however, the link doesn't work at all. Is this because I am only looking at a preview of my book on the iPad and it will work when I publish it or am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Great work, Timmy.
Having solved that one, we now need to crack on with the following wish list:
- creating a touch screen accessible footnotes function
- a show/hide option for answers to review questions
- providing a starter set of notes at the editorial stage
- additional text editing functions not currently in pages
- touch-activated pop-ups on screen
- text resizing by gestures, like the Macbook trackpad
And the real biggie .. How institutions like our uni can serve course material on this platform (free at the point of use) but with access restricted to those enrolled in courses. Does anyone know if Apple has an institutional support business option.
It strikes me that the early adopters need to be vocal about how powerful this could be as an educational delivery tool as soon as IBA's teething problems have been sorted. Let's add to the wish list and build the teaching platform of the future.
Cheers,
MicroGnome.

I cannot select the "Enable a hyperlink" in ibooks author. Anybody knows why?

I selected a word in the document and then followed the instruction to go to Inspector and opened the Link, but Enable a hyperlink was greyed out. Also cannot type anyhing in Add Bookmark. Doyou know why and how to do it right? Thanks.

One thing comes to mind.
You created a text box with the words 'Type to enter text' already created within it. You then selected the text and typed to remove the dummy text and create your words. You then selected your word to hyperlink. If you use this process the check box to enable the hyperlink is greyed out and you can't use it.
under this scenario what you have to do is, when the text box is created, select all the text and press DELETE. Once you press delete, the check box becomes active.
Hope this helps in some way.

How can you add a hyperlink to a picture on iBooks Author?

I want to link social media icons to the websites from my iBook that i am making in iBooks AUthor but I can't do it. I can add a hyperlink to text only.Does anyone know how to do this?

See the iBA User Tip: iBA Tips and Tricks 01

I have set hyperlinks within my ibook author document, they work perfectly until i export and view on the ipad, when only one or none work, (hyperlinks to website not working at all) what am i doing wrong?

I have set hyperlinks within my ibook author document, they work perfectly until i export and view on the ipad, when only one or none work, (hyperlinks to website not working at all) what am i doing wrong?

An external hyperlink should handoff to Safari and leave iBooks.
If that's not happening, perhaps there is something misconfigured on your iPad? Have you manually confirmed those links work in Safari on your iPad?

How can I link to a chapter in iBooks Author? I just want a link to the chapter, not to a bookmark

How can I link to a chapter in iBooks Author? I just want a link to the chapter, not to a bookmark.
But something like: "This was explained in Chapter 5." Where "Chapter 5" is a clickable hyperlink.
Also, when I add a new chapter before chapter 5 this should automatically change to:
"This was explained in Chapter 6."
I could use a bookmark (e.g. to the first word in Chapter 5) but this would be not right.
Gerriet.

Use "Link to: A file" in the link inspector.

Looking for iBooks Author vendor

Looking for iBooks Author vendor to create multiple books based on an existing template. The books are operative techniques for the orthopaedic surgery industry. Need an idea of cost to outsourse. Here are the specs:
7 chapters
the first page of each chapter is an overview of the chapter that includes hyperlinks to each step in the operative technique
total of 44 pages
each page has at least one video widget (some pages have two), a photo gallery widget plus a static image and text
glossary index with 100 entries that include text and photos (would love to find someone who can program including collada 3-D images into the glossary. but that is a nice to have, not a need to have)
all images require resizing for the ibook (they are print images)
all videos require compression for the ibook
half of the pages have 3-d collada files
heavy typesetting is required
three pages include large interactive images with 20 labels
Looking for estimates to present to the company on the cost to outsourse as well as find possible vendors to talk to and provide more detail.
thanks.

i apologize. here is my contact email if anyone is interested in talk more about this.
[email protected]

Bookmarks not working in iBooks author

I am unable to create a bookmark in iBooks author. The “+”-sign in the bookmarks pane of the inspector is faded/unclickable when I select an element on one of the pages (figure, text box, image etc.). I have been reading up on solutions and workarounds, but have yet to find one that works.
I have chapters, sections, and pages in my book but cannot add bookmarks to any of these. I am using the “Photo book”-layout, could this be the problem?
I’d really appreciate any help I can get on this problem, thanks.

I finally managed to find a workaround for this, which I thought I'd share since I know a lot of others are struggling with this too.
In my case, I'm working with a photo book style template, with full sized background images on every page. I wanted to link from one page to the next, but as mentioned, I was unable to create bookmarks on any of the pages of my book.
What I found worked was selecting one of my large background images, then going to the "Widget inspector" (farthest right in the inspector panel), selecting the "Layout" tab and checking "title" and in the label dropdown selecting "Figure". By doing so, I'm defining my image as a figure. I can then select a portion of text on another page, go to the hyperlinks panel in the inspector and in the drop down menu specify that I want to link to a figure, my image then appears in the figure list and I can click to link to it.
Now, this led to a second problem - changing the hyperlink color (predefined as underlined light blue). This is yet another (of many) bugs in iBooks author. I found a way to solve this too; open the Styles Drawer (select it from the "View" menu on the top left of the formatting toolbar). Select the text you want to format (in this case your hyperlink). Click on the little arrow next to the "Figure reference" style (which is the defined style on the text link) and choose "Create character style from selection". In the pop-up that opens, click on "Include these character attributes" and at the bottom left, click on "Select Overrides", then uncheck the overrides for underline and color. Click on OK (I find that you need to have at least one character attribute checked in order to be able to click OK so make sure you have the font and size checked). Now you've created a new formatting style that you can apply to all your hyperlinks but it won't look like you've done anything in iBooks Author - you'll ned to preview the book to see your formatted text (yup, another bug...).
Let's hope Apple get these bugs fixed for the next version, and soon!

Why don't KeyNote links work in iBooks Author

Links that work in a Keynote presention on Mac, don't work once that presentation has been imported into an iBooks Author book. Have others had a similar problem?
Thanks

What resolution is the keynote file? I found that when ibooks author scales the keynote file to fit into the widget, the hyperlinks dont scale, or at least not at the same rate as the resto of the document. You may therefore find that the hyperlinks are there - just not in teh place you expect.

Keynote slides with video - not linking in Ibooks Author

Hi
I have a problem with linking Keynote slides containing videos in Ibooks author. I am using the latest version of both programs on Yosemity (6.5.2 keynote, Ibooks Author 2.2 )
The keynotes is set up with ‘Links Only’ and it works perfectly in Keynote. In Ibooks author the ‘link only’ is not working and the slides just progresses to next one. Like the Presentation type was set to normal, whether or not I press the link or outside the link. The exact same keynote slides without the video doesn’t have this problem and links perfectly in Ibooks Author. The result is the same testing the Ibook directly on the Mac or on the Ipad Air (8.1.2)
To make sure about the video types I tried a number of different ones (different Mac/Ipad video conversion programs) all with the same result. The result is also the same whether it plays ‘on page’ or ‘full-screen’ in the Ibook. The videos all plays perfectly but the links are not working.
Saving the keynote to 09 seemed to solve the problem. I am new to Ibooks author …. And the whole Mac environment. But I am thinking it’s supposed to work without having to do this????
The same happened when I tested a linked keynote example from Lynda.com. ‘Ibooks essential training’. Only in the 09 version it was working with the links, when the slides had videos. This example was off course also created in an earlier Keynote version.
Niles , Denmark

This is a problem that I've reported both here and via bugreport.apple.com. However, I don't think that it has to do with screen resolution (retina/non-retina). Rather, I think it has to do with setting the widget to "full screen" where transport controls cannot be used and selecting a "Links Only" presentation.
I used simple forward and back arrows set (Control-click on object) to go to next slide or previous slide. What I found was that while this works as designed when played back in Keynote (OS X or iOS) but not in the Keynote widget. The links only setting and these hyperlinks are totally ignored in the Keynote widget. Tapping anywhere went to the next slide. Tapping on the back arrow also went to the next slide,

How can I insert an interactive musical notation fragment in iBooks Author?

I would like to insert an interactive fragment of musical notation in iBooks Author, just to illustrate a short melody or a few chords.

Keynote cant hyperlink within the same slide to another object. Interactive presentations must use multiple slides.
Create the presentation as described above and use the same background on each slide using the slide master, this will provide the look that you want of staying on the same page.
Create a return button on every slide so you can navigate to a previous slide.

Is there something like the questions widget in ibooks author in keynote?

Does anyone know how if there is a review widget within Keynote as there is in iBooks Author that can show more than 6 questions and can I edit this so that multiple ticks can be shown and show more than 6 questions?
I also want to know if I can alter the "Check Answer" button.

The interactive system in Keynote uses hyperlinks, click a button and it will jump to another slide, that's the sum of the amount of interactivity available.
An every day scenario; I want to review the scores to 5 questions with a multiple choice of 3 answers.
This requires 5 slides one question per slide.
I cannot click a button on slide 6, requesting to show the number of correct and wrong answers to all 5 questions. There is no database or dynamic library available to Keynote to allow a presentation of the data.

HT5067 When using a Keynote Widget with iBooks Author, do the transitions and builds between Keynote slides appear in the iPad preview version of the iBook, or only in the finished product?

I'm using the Keynote Widget in iBooks Author, and the Keynote presentation uses the Magic move transition between slides. When I preview the iBook on a new iPad, the Magic move transitions don't show up (i.e. the transition from slide to slide is standard, not Magic move). Any suggestions?

Hyperlinks and magic move should work but don't. However I found the following as a workaround for me. Use three slides instead of two to generate the magic move effect in Keynote presentations on Ibooks using hyperlinks only. As an example
Supose an object on slide 1 was set as a hyperlink to go to a slide which then had a magic move effect to a third slide. For some reason it works on the mac, but not on ibooks. However you can create the magic move transition effect by simply adding a "dummy slide" as follows. Suppose an object on slide 1 had an object which would hyperlink to slide 4. Duplicate Slide 4, and make the duplicate slide 5. Then set Slide 4 to automatically transition (with no effect) to the next slide (i.e. slide 5) after .5 seconds. Have Slide 5 set to transition to Slide 6 using magic move automatically after .5 seconds. By having the hyperlink point to slide 4 the magic move effect from Slide 5 to Slide 6 works fine (with a brief 1 sec delay). IF the hyperlink pointed directly to Slide 5, the magic move transition to slide 6 would not work.
For some reason having an extra slide makes magic move work even though it is not needed on the mac. I hpe this helps.

Family history/genealogy book by Ibooks Author

Hello,
At the moment I got a Family history/genealogy book in hardcopy (2003) it's 11 years old.
In these eleven years a lot of events happend. To get an updated family book I want to use Ibooks Author to create a digital version so you can added information to your book anytime.
I allready got all the current information till 2003 in a spreadsheet
I would like to know if there is a template/format to create digital family history book with Ibooks Author.
Specially for all the links between all the family members so they are clickable.
Thanks in advance.
Greetings,

You can also contact Bookry or ibooks-widgets.com and other similar online outlets who are possible able to create a template to your specifications.
You could aalso take time to learn how to modify existing template to suits your purpose.
Specially for all the links between all the family members so they are clickable.
iBooks Author as an "Insert Hyperlink" function which covers, website, email, Book marks and Figures.
Portrait mode free templates may not be suitable.. but Landscape templates will only allow a short "tree" unless you use smaller print or sectionalise the families lines.

Link to editable PDF in iBook author

I'm working on an iBook textbook and would like link to some editable pdfs found at http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/
I know how to insert the hyperlink to the worksheets within iBook Author, but I'm wondering if there is any way to make them editable on an iPad?
Is there an iBook widget that could accomplish this or could students open the pdf pages in another iPad app (or browser) and be able to edit them?
Thanks ~ Peter

Looking for something that could be the digital replacement for a hard copy graphic organizer.
As you seem to be creating a tool for running a classroom, you should be looking at making your own app. In the end, you'll want more and more features, so you might as well go that direction now.
For general app suggestions, you may want to try the Using iPad forums.
Good luck in any case.
Ken

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