The LinkrUI Links dialog is a powerful feature and part of the Adobe Creative Cloud Connector by LinkrUI. When a user accesses a project file that has broken links, Smart-Linkr can automatically detect and relink them.
If a project's linked assets are already in the cloud, LinkrUI will automatically search and find similar assets, providing a list of asset options. The user can then choose the correct asset and relink it. If the linked assets are only linked locally, the user can upload the asset to Bynder with a single click in the LinkrUI panel. Once the project and linked assets are uploaded to the DAM, all team members can access the same cloud-based project and assets using the LinkrUI panel.
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Only InDesign and Illustrator documents support this article's LinkrUI features and require a LinkrUI Premium license.
How to Navigate to the Links Button
- Make sure you have Adobe Creative Cloud Connector by LinkrUI enabled.
- Navigate to your Adobe Creative Cloud tool
- The relink button is located at the bottom left of the panel.
- To open the LinkrUI Links dialog, click the Links button.
Need Attention Links
- If your document has links that need attention, a number badge will appear over the Link button.
- Hover over the numbers to display the following information.
- If you hover your cursor over the badge icons, a tooltip will pop up displaying the number of links that are missing locally and from the cloud.
- The pink badge on the right shows the number of links missing from the cloud.
- The red badge on the left shows the number of links missing from your local device.
Links Dialog Overview
The LinkrUI Links dialog lists all files placed in a document. This includes both local files (on disk) and cloud assets.
- Download Links (toggle)- Enable downloading links. (This toggle is also available in the Preferences dialog.)
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Link Status Icons indicate the link's status. For more information on link statuses, refer to the table below.
- Link Name and Location in the Document - Clicking on a link in the Links dialog automatically takes you to that image within the document. The page number appears in brackets ().
- Link Path- Hovering over a link in the Links dialog provides a tooltip of the full file path.
- Link Action Buttons- Actions that can be performed on a link (the actions vary depending on the status of the link).
- Apply Action - to all links.
LinkrUI Link Actions
The following are LinkrUI Links dialog actions that can be performed on links:
On individual link
- Upload
- Relink to cloud
- Relink to local
- Unembed
- Sync
On all links
- Upload all
- Relink all to cloud
- Relink all to local
- Sync all
Upload
- To link a local link file to the cloud, select the local link in the Links dialog and click the Upload button.
- In the Upload dialog, select Upload to upload the link.
- After the local link is uploaded, LinkrUI automatically relinks it with the cloud asset within your InDesign document, and the link's status becomes ‘Cloud.’
- The Upload button is available only for links with the status "Local."
Upload All
- To link multiple local links to the cloud, click the Upload All button at the top right of the Links dialog.
- In the Upload dialog that appears, select Upload.
- All local links are uploaded to the cloud.
- After the local links are uploaded, LinkrUI automatically relinks them with the cloud assets within your InDesign document, and their status becomes ‘Cloud.’
- All of your uploaded files are now relinked with the cloud.
Relink to cloud
- The relink to Cloud option enables you to relink any link in the LinkrUI dialog to a cloud asset.
- To relink a link to the cloud, click.
- If LinkrUI finds results in the cloud corresponding to the link’s name, it shows them in a dialog with the best guess of the assets to relink to.
- To Approve the selection, click
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- If the asset you expect is not included in the dialog search results, use the Search in Panel
to search for other assets.
- When you find the desired asset, select Place from the asset actions menu list.
- Now, the link is replaced by the selected asset and relinked.
- If LinkrUI doesn’t find any cloud asset corresponding to the link’s name, the message “No results were found” is displayed.
Relink all to Cloud
- To link multiple links to the cloud, click the button at the top right of the Links dialog.
- To approve/cancel all, click the Approve all / Cancel all button at the top right of the Links dialog.
Relink to local (Replace a link with a different source local file)
- Select the link in the Links dialog and click the Relink to Local button to relink a link to a local file.
- In the dialog box that appears, locate and double-click the new source file.
Relink all to local - To relink all links to local, click the Relink all to local button at the top right of the Links dialog.
- In the dialog box that appears, select a folder where you want LinkrUI to search for links.
- If the targeted selected folder contains the corresponding file name, LinkrUI replaces the links.
Update modified links
- To update modified links, click the Sync button next to the link marked with the modified link icon.
Unembed a linked file
- To unembed a linked file, click the Unembed button.
Limitations
- Multiple link selection is not supported.
- Illustrator: Missing links are indicated in the LinkrUI dialog as “Unknown” instead of the name of the link.
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