Thursday, October 22, 2009

Past a Hyperlink into a Task?.

I KNOW...I didn't know you could do that either.

Imagine that you get an email from a service like You Send It, one of the many free FTP services available on the net that you can instruct your clients to use to transfer large files. The email has a hyperlink that will connect you to a target file for download. Very cool, except you need your graphics team to have the file in order to execute your layout or production file.

Simply open the email, highlight and right click on the hyperlink, use the command < Select Hyperlink > and paste that into the Task description. The Task works like any other Task. When the recipient opens the Task they can click on the link or cut & paste into their browser.

TIP: Avoid  cutting and pasting the link. That appears to brinig undesibable formating that can cause theTask to fail.