PDF/URL links continues project when clicked on...

Hi all
I have put PDF and URL links into my project. What I want is for the user to click on these and read what comes up, then close either the PDF or URL link then go back into the project and click onto the next slide when ready.
At the moment, once one of the links has been clicked on either the PDF or URL opens up but the project continues onto the next slide, which is not what I want.
I'm sure there is a way to change this but I cannot see the setting.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

Hi there
The options you mention are for when the presentation is presented from inside a frameset. The option you are interested in is the "Continue" option. You need to clear that option to keep the slide from continuing when the object is clicked.
Cheers... Rick
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All of our version 8 projects were created from scratch in version 8, and we have been importing our version 5 topics one by one (and deleting the version 5 styles assigned to them), then applying the applicable version 8 style to each line. We have attempted creating brand new topics in version 8 to make sure no old legacy version 5 code imported from an old project was causing the issue, and it still happens. We have tried manually cleaning up the HTML code for the topic and it happens again once a cross-project link is added back to that topic. We also tried the "Convert RoboHelp edited topics to HTML" to try to get around the XHTML restrictions and it still happened to everything that was an autonumber format, so it appears the issue is something with that one of these. We created styles for each autonumber format we wanted to use (using the options available for Paragraph styles in the Robohelp Style editor), this is a sample of one of them:
p.Bullet {
 list-style: rh-list;
 x-list-class: rl-p-Bullet;
 x-list-level: 1;
rh-list.rl-p-Bullet {
 x-level-count: 1;
 x-lvl-1-format: "<x>";
 x-lvl-1-type: disc;
While it would be really great to have the additional features of the autonumber format, it may not be a viable option for us since it is only available on the paragraph level and Robohelp 8 does not appear to play well with bullets and numbers in anything other than the list level. I'm thinking I may need to abandon our current style sheet that uses autonumbering and start over with a new style sheet using only the limited bullets and numbering available on the list level (or possibly go old-school and just use the bullet and number toolbar buttons to add formatting to normal text). We are about 8,000 topics into our conversion of 40,000. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'd love to send you the test projects I set up, but unfortunately my company has blocked that ability. I created brand new blank projects in Robohelp 8 using the default style sheet with an autonumber bullet and numbered step added and nothing else. I thought this bare-minimum approach would be the best way to make sure it wasn't something we had set up incorrectly that on our end. I used the default First Topics in each project and added numbered and bullet texts using the style sheet to Project 1 and then added a link to that topic in Project 2. I didn't even generate the projects and I still had the issue when I previewed the Project 2 topic and clicked the link.
I've attached a copy of the info on the topic in Project 1 and the code behind the scenes for it below:
First Topic
1. 1. 1. Procedure
o o o Bullet
o o o Bullet
2. 2. 2. Procedure
Code before link in Project 2:
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Procedure" ?>Procedure<?rh-list_end ?>
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Bullet" ?>Bullet<?rh-list_end ?>
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Bullet" ?>Bullet<?rh-list_end ?>
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Procedure" ?>Procedure<?rh-list_end ?>
</body>
</html>
Code after link in Project 2 was added and clicked:
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Procedure" ?>1.     Procedure<?rh-list_end ?>
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Bullet" ?>o       Bullet<?rh-list_end ?>
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Bullet" ?>o       Bullet<?rh-list_end ?>
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Procedure" ?>2.     Procedure
Code after link in Project 2 clicked a second time:
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Procedure" ?>1.     1.     Procedure<?rh-list_end ?>
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Bullet" ?>o       o       Bullet<?rh-list_end ?>
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Bullet" ?>o       o       Bullet<?rh-list_end ?>
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Procedure" ?>2.     2.     Procedure
Logically there is no reason that clicking on a link that is outside of the project should be able to recode the topic being displayed, but it is.

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