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jzhang2016
jzhang2016
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August 19, 2015
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navigate to collection brows page

  • August 19, 2015
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Hi. Is there a working url I can use that will navigate to a collection? Not necessarily the home collection, but the browse page of to the collection a user is already in. I want to add a button on an article page that will bring the user back to the browse page that article is housed in. Of course if I tap the page, the chrome drops down to display the back button, though management wants a button displayed on the page so the user doesn't have to tap to see the chrome to go back.

Thanks!

Jeff

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    Best answer by TommyDAQ-Bates

    Currently, there is no way to navigate from to collections. However, if the collection is at the same level and within the same collection as the article from which you want to link to it, you should be able to use a navto URL with the collection name. Likewise, as you may already know, on iOS, you can navto the Home collection w/ goto://ApplicationViewState/library. I am not aware of an equivalent command for Android, but I need one! 

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    TommyDAQ-Bates
    TommyDAQ-BatesAccepted solution
    Level 6
    August 19, 2015

    Currently, there is no way to navigate from to collections. However, if the collection is at the same level and within the same collection as the article from which you want to link to it, you should be able to use a navto URL with the collection name. Likewise, as you may already know, on iOS, you can navto the Home collection w/ goto://ApplicationViewState/library. I am not aware of an equivalent command for Android, but I need one! 

    Neil_Enns_-_Ado
    Adobe Employee
    Neil_Enns_-_AdoAdobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    August 19, 2015

    Android will support those goto:// links in our next release, I think this coming Monday.

    Neil

      jzhang2016
      jzhang2016Author
      Level 4
      August 19, 2015

      Thank you for this piece of info. I have visited your original post and tried to utilize this goto://ApplicationViewState/library in my URL button, though my app crashes each time I tap on it. As far as the navto:// goes, I added that to the url and the name of my article (navto://Mod5) and when I tapped on it I get a dialog that tells me Content Not Found. If it worked would goto://ApplicationViewState/library take the user to the first collection in the app or the current collection browse page they tapped the button in?

      Thoughts?

      I am using a preview app, though I figure that shouldn't make a difference.

      Neil_Enns_-_Ado
      Adobe Employee
      Neil_Enns_-_AdoAdobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      August 19, 2015

      Which OS are you seeing the crash on? It shouldn’t crash. When tapped it will go to the first item in the top-level collection.

      If you’re seeing content not found that means the format of your navto isn’t correct for the article.

      Neil

      TommyDAQ-Bates
      TommyDAQ-Bates
      Level 6
      August 19, 2015

      Are you working on iOS?

      I use the Go to URL - goto://ApplicationViewState/library on nearly each page in our

      Working at ExxonMobil app. You can check it out in the App store if you'd like:

      https://appsto.re/us/QXRt2.i

      jzhang2016
      jzhang2016Author
      Level 4
      August 19, 2015

      I'm building/testing on IOS 8.4 and my articles with Indesign CC 2015 using the buttons panel to create a url button using the "Go To URL" action and in the url link box I'm adding the goto://ApplicationViewState/library


      I have built it a few times, restarted my device, quit and relaunched the preview app, deleted and reinstalled the app. It crashes each time I tap the home button.

      N
      Adobe Employee
      nathanm206Adobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      August 19, 2015

      I asked the team about this and they haven't seen any crashing.

      How is the content set up? Are the articles with the buttons part of the top level? Or are they nested within a collection?

      jzhang2016
      jzhang2016Author
      Level 4
      August 19, 2015

      Here is my layout:

      TopLevel

                          Mod1

                                    Articles 1-5

                          Mod2

                                    Articles 1-5 (Article 1 has the home button for testing purposes)

                          Mod3

                                    Articles 1-5

      To clarify on the navto:// - I should be able to create a button using the Buttons panel in Indesign, the Go To URL action, and a url of: navto://Mod3 and this would take the user back to the collection browse page of which the article that has the button resides? It still tells me Content Not Found.




      Neil_Enns_-_Ado
      Adobe Employee
      Neil_Enns_-_AdoAdobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      August 19, 2015

      As mentioned earlier in the thread, we do not support navto:// collections. Your navto://Mod3 won’t work. It will return content not found as we look for an article with that name (which doesn’t exist, it’s a collection).

      Neil

      jzhang2016
      jzhang2016Author
      Level 4
      August 19, 2015

      Ok, I was moving forward based on what the correct answer was marked as above,"However, if the collection is at the same level and within the same collection as the article from which you want to link to it, you should be able to use a navto URL with the collection name."

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