Tool Mentor: Adding External Links to Rational Unified Process

Purpose

This tool mentor describes how you add an external link to a page in the Rational Unified Process. This is useful when you develop web pages outside the Rational Unified Process.

Overview

1. Find the page's file path
2. Enter the hyperlink
3. Use the hyperlink

Find the page's file path

Find the file path to the page you want to link to.

1. Open the Rational Unified Process, and display the page in question in the main frame.
2. Using Internet Explorer: Position the cursor over the page, and  right-click with the mouse. Select Properties. Copy-paste the file path.
   Using Netscape Navigator: Position the cursor over the frame, and right-click with the mouse. Select View Frame Info. Copy-paste the file path. 

Enter the hyperlink

Enter the hyperlink in a page. Notice the following:

• Choose whether the hyperlink should open the page in a new browser window or not.
• Use relative file paths, if possible.

Use the hyperlink

Clicking on a hyperlink to a page in the Rational Unified Process, will display the page in a web-browser window. If the user wants to display the Rational Unified Process with frames, click on the button labeled "Rational Unified Process" in the right border.