Let s say you wanted to link to the Commuter Services page within the Student Life department. On the live site, the page can be found here:

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1 Simmons College Online Design & Communications Sitecore User Resources Linking with Sitecore Linking to a Simmons Page Whenever you want to link to Simmons web page (either on the WWW or INTERNAL sites) you will want to follow these steps. These steps will allow you to link to a page within the Sitecore Tree, ensuring that if the page is ever moved - the links will automatically be updated. Let s say you wanted to link to the Commuter Services page within the Student Life department. On the live site, the page can be found here: If you created a hyperlink to this above URL, it certainly would work - but if the page was moved into a different section, or was renamed in any way, that link would breat. To avoid this, you should always link to Simmons pages using a Sitecore Link. When inside the rich-text editor, highlight the text you want to add the link to and click on the Insert Sitecore Link button in the top level toolbar. Clicking that button will bring up a window showing the Sitecore Tree. This is a replica of the main sitecore tree that you can use to navigate to the page you want to link to. To find out exactly where your page is, you can follow the path of the page s URL:

2 So to find this page, I would follow this path: HOME (simmons.edu) > Student Life > Live at Simmons > Commuter Services Make sure to click on the page/item itself in the tree (not the plus) so it is highlighted (like it is above) and click Link. A link to this page has now been added to your content. Make sure to click ACCEPT so that your changes are stored on the page - and then SAVE to ensure they are saved. please note: you cannot create a link to a specific accordion panel within the sitecore tree. If you want to link to an accordion panel, you need to link to the page that the accordion lives on, not the accordion itself.

3 Linking to a Document Linking to a document works in almost the exact same way as linking to a Simmons page. You ve already uploaded and saved your document to the Media Library, and now you will use the same Insert Sitecore Link button to link to that document in your text. The difference this time, when the window opens showing the Sitecore Tree, you will want to click on the Media Items tab. This will bring up the media library tree, which you can use to navigate to your folders and the document you ve already uploaded (and saved). Again make sure to click Link in this window to add your link, and Accept in the text editor to make sure it s stored on the page. And always - always - click Save so your changes are saved.

4 Linking to An Outside Web Site If you ever needed to link to an outside web page, you will use a different tool in the toolbox. You would highlight the text you want to link to in the exact same way, only this time you would click on the Hyperlink Manager button: In the window that opens (the Hyperlink Manager) paste or type in the full URL of the web page you want to link to (including the http or https) The only other setting you would need to touch is Target dropdown which allows you to open the link in a new window. Click OK to add your link to the page

5 Linking to An Address Linking to an address works almost the exact same way as linking to an external page. Highlight the text you want to link an address to and click on the Hyperlink Manager button. In the Hyperlink Manager window, click on the tab. Paste or type the address into the Address field. The Link Text field displays the text you highlighted. You can also add something into the subject field if you want your link to auto-fill the subject field of the being sent. Click OK to add your link to the text. Remember to click Accept to store your link on the page - and SAVE to make sure your changes are saved If you run into any issues or have any questions, please contact webmaster@simmons.edu.