I often find references on the web and chatgpt to sections, but I don’t find a video or help that describes how to set up a section.
I have two views on a page. I want to make a button that will jump to the second view. From what I’ve found, there is no URL (required for button) for views. Apparently there is a URL for sections, but as I said earlier I cannot find documentation that tells me how to do this.
Please help or suggest another way to jump to the second view.
Thanks
Hi Sam,
You can create different headers with /h1 /h2 /h3, and then add an outline (/outline). This will display the headers hierarchically and clicking on them will take you to the respective section.
Alternatively, if you want to create a button for a specific section you can do the following:
...Hope this helps,
Pablo
That did help. Thanks!
It shows up on the right side of my doc. Is there a way to move it to another location?
Also, I tried adding another outline between my two lists. I got no error messages, but nothing happened.
You can’t move it unfortunatelly and you can’t create more than one per page. When you create an outline it is always visible on the upper right corner and displays all the sections in the current page.
I agree it would be nice to have the option to have it as a standard coda block and place it wherever we want. If you want that level of customization you have to do it manually, either by creating buttons or links, like I explained in my previous post. The downside is that they won’t automatically adjust when you add/remove/edit section headers.
Glad it helped!
Pablo
in its early days, coda refered to each page as a section. and there were many tutorials and videos made back then that used that term.
today they are called pages and sub-pages, which is better terminology.
so maybe you found references to ‘sections’ which are now ‘pages’ ?
max
So, I guess if I want a jump link lower in my document I’m out of luck. Maybe creating a new page and moving the second view to it with quick jump buttons to link to the other page would be an alternative?
OK. I need to vent here.
Coda is not the only app that fails to keep it’s help and videos updated. When this happens, it makes it hard to learn how to use the app.
Hi Sam,
You can actually jump to any block on a page, by copying the link to that block on the page:
That link is a URL that you can use anywhere internally or externally to Coda.
Be aware though, that this is only available on pages, and not for blocks in Canvas columns.
Regards
Piet
The problem is when I click on the link it opens a new window on the windows app. I want it replace the display of the page I’m currently on.
it shouldn’t do that. it opens in the same window for me. try linking it by writing @ the page name instead of using the link.
If I copy the URL as Piet and I described and then use it to create an ‘Open Hyperlink’ button, or just paste it somewhere in the canvas within the same document, it just takes me to the linked object without opening a new window.
What browser are you using? Have you tried a different one?
I forgot to mention that the page is in another document. I copied the url for that page in the other document, but it still opens a new window.
@ does not list the page in the other document that I want to go to. Maybe it’s not possible to link to a page in another document?
I’m using Edge.
I just tested it out using a specific page in a different doc and it opened in the same window/tab. I suspect this is just an issue of your browser settings defaulting to opening links in a new tab.
Which browser are you using.
I’m using the windows app version of Coda. I checked WebCatalog options and Edge options there doesn’t seem to be a setting that controls this.
I used Chrome, on a Mac
Hi Sam,
I have recorded a loom to show what happens.
Regards
Piet
@AJM & @Piet_Strydom thanks for the help.
I’m thinking this is just the way it works when using the coda app on Windows instead of using their website.
Coda is browser based. You can only use Coda on your browser, no other way.
There is no coda desktop app.
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