Indesign/swf interactive hyperlinks

Hay, can you please help me with a problem that I have with hyperlinks... I created the interactive swf in indesign, and i need those links to take me to another page when presenting in swf, but the cursor is not selecting anything?

I have tried that too and it didn´t work out. Attribute that controls where you open your hyperlink is called Target. And InDesign doesn´t let you define it. Let´s hope some improvement with this in future...
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Hi,
We're working on an Interactive PDF but strangely enough we suddenly can't work with hyperlink targets anymore. This means we can't make certain objects a hyperlink target so we can't navigate
through the document as we were used to. Any idea of how this is possible and what we can do about it?
Kind regards,
David

I usually start by creating my Hyperlink Destinations by choosing New Hyperlink Destination from the Hyperlinks panel menu.
Then I create my hyperlink. In this case I started with a text frame:
I chose to link to a Shared Destination (although you don't have to):
You can test this in InDesign when the Hyperlink is selected:
When you test it in your PDF, be sure choose File > Export > Adobe PDF (Interactive) so the hyperlinks will be properly exported.

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I have encountered what may be a similar problem to the one experienced by Greg Hogan posted on 10-01-2007 (http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?224@@[email protected])
I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 with a 1.5 GHz Pentium M processor, 2 GB RAM, Windows XP/Pro, and InDesign CS3 (v. 5.0.1).
Problem description:
I have a multipage InDesign document with multiple hyperlinks, and some of those hyperlinks are very long and require more than one line. The hyperlinks that require more than one line look OK after conversion to PDF, but, if I hover the mouse over the link in the PDF, all the characters in the URL on the second line are missing, and the link doesnt work. I first discovered this using Acrobat Professional 7. I recently downloaded a trial version of Acrobat Professional 8, and I still have the problem, so I have concluded that the problem is with InDesign, not Acrobat.
Yes, I know I can create a hyperlink character style with the no break feature enabled. However, that can result in appearance and text flow problems.
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I found the instructions on creating named hyperlinks in the InDesign Help file to be incomplete. Here is what I do, if I want a text hyperlink that "masks" a long URL (especially a long URL that wraps to a second line and gets truncated in a PDF):
Let's say I want a hyperlink in my InDesign document to say:
Membership Application
I type that text into the document. Then I highlight it (not absolutely necessary, I think, but I find it helpful).
Open the Hyperlinks panel: Window/Interactive/Hyperlinks
Click on New Hyperlink Destination (NOT "new Hyperlink From URL"). Select URL from the "Type" drop down box. The highlighted text will appear in the "Name" field. Enter (or paste) the complete URL into the "URL" field. Click OK.
Now, click on "New Hyperlink" in the Hyperlinks panel. With the text you want highlighted, that will show up in the "Name" field at the top of the dialog box.
In the "Destination" Section of the "New Hyperlinks" dialog box, select "URL" from the "Type" drop down box, and (once you have more than one link), the name of that link that you earlier assigned from the "Name" drop down box.
The correct URL will appear in the "URL" field.
You also have some "Appearance" choices that you can make from this panel. When you are finished with your selections, click OK. The link "Name" will show in the Hyperlinks panel.
Use a Character Style to apply a text color, and perhaps, a different font to the link.
If you subsequently want to change the "Appearance" features, click on "Hyperlink Destination Options" from the Hyperlinks panel.
The link name example I used, Membership Application, isn't likely to wrap (and therefore be truncated in a PDF), but suppose you had a really long URL like this:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/24/technology/LA-TEC-Peru-One-Laptop-One-Village.ph p?page=1
and a narrow column. You could use "OLPC Article" as a link name (for example), and paste the complete URL into the appropriate field. Your link will work in InDesign (you can test this by selecting the link in the Hyperlinks panel and clicking on "Go To Destination"--provided you are connected to the internet). The link will NOT be truncated in a PDF and will therefore work in the converted file--provided you have checked "Hyperlinks" in the Include section of the Export Adobe PDF dialog box (under "General").
This sequence is reasonably straightforward, if a little tedious. However, it took me a while to figure it out. To me, the instructions in the Help file (and 2 other books) are not as clear as they could (and should) be. Perhaps the sequence is obvious to the vast majority of InDesign users.

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Since you will be loading AS3 files, you will need an AS3 preloader, otherwise, an AS2 preloader such as what you showed will fail in trying to an AS3 file, which is probably what you encountered in trying it.
Here's a link to an AS3 preloader tutorial which I believe does what you want... loads the file separately...
AS3 Preloader
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=85
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I have a flash file of which i have placed wihin my iweb site (the flash file shows and operates perfectly)
However - the SWF's hyperlink will not work within iweb.
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