Policy Hyperlinks

Hello,

If you are using Adobe Acrobat Pro you can add hyperlinks to internal documents and also link out to websites. We use that and it is a huge timesaver for our officers and very easy to set up. 

Also, as long as you have a draft of the policy that you’ll be linking to, you can copy the link and insert it and the link will work for the final version once it’s published.  Our policies are in Word and we can insert the links there too.  We utilize the links for other policies and also link statute references to the legislature’s website.

Hi Steve,

to link Policy A to Policy B with both documents being in PowerDMS do the following:

1. Go to policy A, click manage document
2. Go the General tab and scroll down to where you see “Internal Link” 
3. click on the copy button
4. Go back to Policy B in the edit mode and highlight wherever Policy A is within the document and highlight the wording. 
5. Right click your mouse and a menu should pop up, click on “link”
6. The link you just copied from above should be the top link listed in the pop up window.
7. Click on the the link in the pop up window and Policy A should then be hyperlinked to Policy B.
8. Save your edits  : )    The same process works for an outside link - just copy the link from the web-browser. Hope this helps a little

Here is a YouTube video on how to hyperlink webpages or external documents into a word document.

Here is a YouTube video on how to hyperlink webpages or external documents into a PDF document.

Here is a YouTube video on how to embed a document into a word document.

Here is a YouTube video on how to embed a document into a PDF.