Link Management - Advanced Links, Copy Links, Import Links, Product Recognition, Import Products, CSV
Additional Linking Tools
When you click on the gear icon, you will see several other options that will help you to utilize the admin platform in useful ways so that can save time in the linking process.
Auto Linking
This tool automates the linking process for you so that you do not have to manually link your entire edition. Especially if you have a large catalog, this tool can be run quickly and grabs links in seconds.
To use this tool, click on the gear icon, then click Advanced Links Recognition in the drop down menu. You will see the box below pop up:
Click Create Web Links From URL, create Email Links From URL, create Phone Links, import Links From PDF then press Proceed. This will pick up any links from the PDF or links in the text of the edition.
Link Recognition Pattern
This tool is if you have SKUs, such as for eCommerce editions. To use it, you will give the tool a pattern to look for and it will automatically link all the SKUs in that pattern. Enter the pattern into the Search For box and tell it what link to add (for example, external). Include the link URL and choose the target from the drop down menu.
Link Style
The Link Style box enables you to choose a link color and opacity for the links you import under the Link Recognition function.
To use it, click Use Custom Style to activate the Link Style box. Then choose the link color from the drop down menu:
To adjust the opacity, slide the bar left or right to make the link color darker or lighter:
You can also choose a border around the link, or choose to have it underlined:
Link Filters
You can filter the link recognition by page range or font type:
Copy Links
You can copy links - all types of links - from one edition to another by using this tool. This is useful if you have a lot of links in the original edition that you would like to copy to the new edition, without having to redo all the links manually.
To use this tool, click Copy Links.
When the box pops up, you will see the Source edition (that's the old edition) and the Target edition (the new edition):
Choose which Source edition and Target edition you need to copy links from and to, what page the links should start on, and check the boxes for which type of links you are copying.
When you've made your selection, press Copy Links.
Once the process is done, you will receive confirmation. You can then close the Copy Links window.
Import Links from File
DCatalog's "Import Links from File" is an automatic linking option that streamlines linking SKUs to product pages and helps you save hours of manual labor! This Enterprise feature works as follows:
Access through the Multimedia manager>Gear Icon>Import Links From File (as shown below).
You will see the admin window pop up:
Format your CSV file as such: SKU number in Column A + Product URL in Column B. Make sure to create a header in row one, to specify that Column A is for the SKU, product ID, item number, etc. and Column B is for the Product URL.
If you need to reuse the same file, after making updates to it, use the drop down menu to select the existing CSV file option.
Save the CSV file as a CSV UTF-8, as shown below):
Upload the CSV file into DCatalog within this dialog and select "Import."
Now your SKUs are linked to their product pages!
Product Recognition
You can import products from your catalog (eCommerce versions) with this tool. You can include the parameters such as "search for" and "product target URL" and include the page range and well as the font types to automatically add your products.
Click Import and then click Save, once it has finished importing.
Import Products from File
Use this tool to import a csv file with your Products in it. Click the upload icon button and upload your csv file.
If you only need to upload a certain amount of pages, click the Page Range checkbox and list the amount of pages you will upload in the From and To page tabs.
Once you have made the selection, or if you just need to upload the entire csv file, click Import to import your csv file.
Delete All
This tool will delete All Links, Videos, Audio Files or Products you have added. Please only use this if you need to completely reset the file and start over.
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