Can I use a hyperlink in a pop-up to load in a feature?

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Previously in ArcMap 10.8 my team used a polyline feature of rivers to load in flood models using the old lightening bolt/hyperlink tool. The links were stored as a field. I'm now wrestling with trying to replicate this in Pro. I can see that pop-ups can be configured with hyperlinks, but as far as I'm aware this only works for linking out to webpages or web-hosted documents. I have tried creating a new hyperlink field in the river feature using the below with no-luck: "a href= " + "'" +!GIS_Link! +"'>Load Model" It just displays in the pop-up as text, not a link.

MattHouston353 · Answer

OK so it sounds like you can't link features then, and the best case will be to just link to folders as you say in your first post. I'll give it a day in case anyone shows otherwise, but thanks.

FranziskaSumpf · Answer

I did some more tests: It worked when linking to a pdf and to an excel-file. However, linking a .shp or .lyrx did not work (link displayed as plain text), nor did linking a feature class (clickable link, but nothing happens). Adding .shp and .lyrx to the recognized file extension (ArcGIS options) made it work, but opened the data in a new project.

Out of ideas for now. Maybe just link the folder to the data instead of the data itself. Or re-think the problem and find an AGP specific solution.

FranziskaSumpf · Answer

I have hyperlinks to folders in one of my feature classes and they work like a charm. Have not tried with documents, yet. The text in the field is: display text I calculate the field from two other fields: def create_link(ablageort, dateiname): ganzer_pfad = '\'.join([ablageort.strip(), dateiname.strip()]) str = '' + dateiname +'' return str There might be something wrong with your html. I think putting "file://" at the start is important. If it still does not work post your html here, others might spot the error. And have you seen this old thread? Hyperlink Pop-up to Document I had created the link field for ArcMap, but it works in AGP as well. However, I don't really use Pop-Ups (too slow) but use the attribute pane instead, which recognizes links automatically (not the html one, but the plain folder path). Might be a setting somewhere (don't remember) and might work only with folders, not files (haven't tried), but this could be an alternative for you.