Friday 23 July 2010

Improved Hyperlinks to documents and web pages

When you are specifying or designing a system it is generally necessary to keep a collection of documents, such as the P&ID's, Process descriptions and so on. Often these documents can become superseded by a model, but it is always useful to be able to refer back to them, to ensure traceability and to be able to check back. Keeping track of these can be tedious.ControlDraw has long supported simple hyperlinks, provided you had a web or file address on the first line of an object's text. This has been greatly improved recently.
You can now set a Linked Documents Path that is a top level folder that contains all the documents that you want to be able to open from a model.
You can also copy File Names in Explorer and then paste them as hyperlinks.