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Ways to assign a link

There are four MDH node types to transform a link form a node into markdown format

  • web link
  • web Image
  • link to local file
  • local Image

All four nodes use the same logic to get the links information by looking at their child nodes.

In the previous pages we could see the standard way to assign a link, but there are more ways:

  1. By adding a child to the MDH node
    1. child with direct link to file
    2. child is clone of node with direct link to file
    3. child has connector to node with direct link to file
    4. child has link to node with direct link to file
  2. Assigning the link directly to the MDH node
    1. node has connector to node with direct link to file
    2. node has link to node with direct link to file

1. The ways to assign a link

WaysToAssignLink.png

2. Animation: Assigning the same image in every possible way

Links-HowTo.gif

3. Using chains of links

Additional to the different ways of assigning a link, this linking nodes have the property to follow the chain of connectors and links to get to the actual link to the image, file or web page

This can be useful when changing a link reference in one place updates all related links in the document.

3.1. Image

  • In the following image you can see that only the first node has a child with a link to an image
  • The other nodes are linked indirectly to it, but all of them get correctly the link to the image.
  • In this case all the linking was made with connectors to make it graphically clear to understand, but it could have been any of the linking methods explained before.

WaysToAssignLink-cascade.png

Using the 'to be linked' nodes

As you can see in the upper animation, when adding a child and linking it to a "node with a link", you get the links information, but the child nodes texts aren't very helpful.

That's why I added the 'to be linked' nodes.

They doesn't add any functionality, but they show in their text the text of the linked node, helping to have a better overview in the map.

Please look at the following animation for better understanding.

1. The nodes texts update themself

Links-toBeLinkedNode.gif

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