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iBooks Author "Enable As Hyperlink" Greyed Out

I've been trolling the forums with no success.

Am trying to link some text within a table to other pages within the book but the Enable As Hyperlink option is totally greyed out.

I can't add anything to Bookmarks either.

The cross referencing within my books is absolutely necessary as it's a tactical guide with over 110 pages.

I've also tried the Format>Advanced>Un-check Define As Placeholder Text as well

What am I missing??

Any help in this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance! 😀

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Feb 25, 2014 8:09 PM

20 replies

Apr 5, 2014 9:58 AM in response to luanne415

The widget will be greyed out if you Place the Image in the Book cover, Table of Contents, or Glossary. It will work on Chapter, Section and pages.

Where have you placed your image?

luanne415 Author

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Apr 15, 2014 12:52 PM in response to Apiculturist

@apiculturist

1) I'm creating a cookbook / guide so the images are only within the chapter/section and pages.

2) Your solution earlier on how to create hyperlinks definitely works through those hacks.

Question: How do you link from the Table of Contents to the relevant recipe/page without going through the hacks?

If I do that then it would not change the TOC if I decide to rename some chapters/pages. This would be a nightmare to keep track of and is not a scalable solution for books that have multiple chapters / sections and pages (which most do)

Any ideas?

Apr 24, 2014 3:56 AM in response to Epochmaker

Like too much Apple software, they've released a great piece of beta code in iBooks Author and then more or less abandoned it. Updates for a lot of Apple software are haphazard, infrequent and usually address issues unrelated to those most people are having. It's a pity that this it also true of iBooks author.

luanne415 Author

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Apr 24, 2014 8:28 AM in response to Jolly Rogerson

Interesting perspective. (I've only been on a Mac for 2 years).

It's such a pity coz what Apple releases is always so good looking but it seems to lack very basic functionality ---ie. linking within internal pages. Surely that's not hard to imagine someone would need that functionality in a book.

The process itself while doable (within a limited scope), it's also very complicated and indirect.

ABTOP

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Jan 4, 2016 4:27 AM in response to luanne415

it seems to me that the text you were trying to use as a link was defined as placeholder text. You can't link from such text as it is meant to be temporary, to be replaced later with actual text. Uncheck "define as placeholder" in "Advanced" menu and linking should work.

iBooks Author "Enable As Hyperlink" Greyed Out