Custom button that opens link to web page

Help & Support
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CUSTOM BUTTON QUESTIONS

  1. How do I create a custom button that will link to a web page?

  2. Can I create a menu button that can link to multiple web pages?

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A good way to experiment would be to look at the built-in links to web pages in the Help section of the DOpus menu. Look for Directory Opus on the Web and its various entries. Unless, that is, that bit isn't in your set of visible Toolbars.

In effect you just put a web address in as the button's Function.

For example:

gpsoft.com.au/help/opus10/default.htm

For multiple pages, it may be a case of working out how to pass them to your browser on a command line.

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On my Windows 7 Pro Desktop, with Firefox as the default browser, listing multiple URLs on successive lines of a button:

resource.dopus.com
blog.dopus.com
gpsoft.com.au/DScripts/redir ... page=intro

brings up all three websites on successive tabs in an already running instance if Firefox is already open. If Firefox is not open, however, it opens Firefox, but only loads the first website. This behaviour seems unchanged if I place the the link "/@Installed\Mozilla Firefox.lnk" in front of each URL (where /@Installed is the path to the directory where my links are).

Listing all three websites on the one line, with my Firefox link at the start, gives a better result:

"/@Installed\Mozilla Firefox.lnk" gpsoft.com.au/DScripts/redir ... page=intro

This brings up a new instance of Firefox, whether or not Firefox is already running, and loads the three websites into three tabs. Is this the button that you are looking for?

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Thank you