DVDA Link 2 to one menu page?HELP

david-ruby wrote on 12/31/2005, 7:29 PM

Hello and Happy New Year to all you great folks here!!

I am creating a DVD that has 58 vendors on it for weddings. It is broken into categories like caterers and hotels, etc. Most end up using 2 or 3 different categories. What I do is create the page and make a submenu to the vendor's business card page. Everyone gets a page. Instead of creating a new one for everyother category, is there a way to link the word to another menu or the such to not have to have so many menus. Example:

Caterer------Benny hotel, Brewster catering.

Hotels-------Benny Hotel, etc.

Catering is the name of the menu. Benny is created as a submenu. This submenu page has the bizcard for the Benny hotel.

Hotels is the menu name. Benny is again created as a submenu. this page is the bizcard again.

I would like to link Benny Hotel under the hotel menu to the submenu page under caterer so not to have so many submenus.

I hope this makes sense.

Thank you

David R

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/1/2006, 6:29 AM

Hi David, Yes, this is easy once you know how. For your second link (the one that will link to an existing menu) just:

1. Drag and drop a button from the Buttons area in the lower left (next to Themes) onto the DVD menu.

2. Set the Button Style to be Text Only (since you want a word to be the link).

3. Select this new text button and look at the Action property. Notice that the Destination says Broken Link in Red. Just select this drop down and assign it to point to the other submenu and you are all set.

You can use this technique to assign a button to go anywhere. If you want it to play a piece of media that is not on any menu, drop that media into the root of the DVD and it will be available for navigation from a button. Remember, whenever you insert a submenu, those buttons cannot be reassigned. You have to manually drop a button onto the menu in order to be able to change its destination.

Happy New Year!

~jr

david-ruby wrote on 1/1/2006, 6:43 AM

Thank you Johnny Roy. That was what I was looking for. ; )

Happy New Year and thnak you gain.
David R