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Create, Edit, and Delete Hotspots

You can create and edit hotspots in the viewer window to navigate quickly to related documents or tags or to show related text.

The display style of hotspots can be configured with the Hotspots render style option on the General Options page of the Viewer Options dialog box as described in Change Viewers.

ClosedPowerWeb Procedures

To add or edit a hotspot in a PDFTron rendition, you must first view the rendition you want to change and the select hotspot edit mode.

  1. Click Edit.

    The Edit toolbar opens

  2. Click Edit Hotspots

    The redline tools disappear. You can now add, edit or delete hotspots as described below.

  3. To end the editing session and save the hotspots to the rendition, click Save in the toolbar.

ClosedAdd Hotspot

  1. At the location where you want the hotspot, click and drag to draw the hotspot you want.

    The Hotspot dialog box opens.

  2. In the Tag number field, enter the Asset Number of the document you want to link to.

  3. Click Refresh.

    The Linked documents pane lists the documents that you can link to from the hotspot.

  4. To set the Type:

    1. Click the ellipsis button.

    2. In the Tag type field that appears, enter the Asset Type for the object you want to link to.

  5. If you want the hotspot to link to multiple targets, in the Expression field enter the wildcard or expression to generate the targets.

  6. Click Save.

ClosedEdit Hotspot

  1. Select the hotspot you want to edit

    The Hotspot dialog box opens.

  2. If you want to change the hotspot target of a manually created hotspot:

    1. In the Tag number field, enter the Asset Number of the document you want to link to.

      The Linked documents pane lists the documents that you can link to from the hotspot.

    2. If you want the hotspot to link to multiple targets, in the Expression field enter the wildcard or expression to generate the targets.

    If both Tag number and Expression are set, the hotspot will refer to all documents which exactly match Tag number and all documents which match the Expression.

  3. To set the Type:

    1. Click the ellipsis button.

    2. In the Tag type field that appears, enter the Asset Type for the object you want to link to.

  4. Click and drag the handles around the hotspot until you have the size and shape you want.

  5. Click Save.

ClosedDelete Hotspot

  1. Select the hotspot you want to delete.

  2. Press the Delete key on your keyboard.

ClosedDelete All Hotspots

  1. Select the document or batch of documents you want from the Documents list.

  2. On the Edit ribbon in the Organize group, select Delete > Delete Hotspots.

  3. Click OK.