mlreportgen.dom.LinkTarget class

Package: mlreportgen.dom

Target for internal or external links or image area links

Description

A target to use for internal and external links and for image area links. You can specify a LinkTarget object when you construct an mlreportgen.dom.InternalLink or mlreportgen.dom.ImageArea object.

The mlreportgen.dom.LinkTarget class is a handle class.

Creation

Description

targetObj = LinkTarget(name) creates a link target with the specified name.

Input Arguments

name — Name of link target

character vector | string scalar

Name of a link target, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Note

To generate a link target name that is valid for all report types, use mlreportgen.utils.normalizeLinkID. The generated name conforms to the Microsoft^® Word limitation on ID length and the PDF requirement that an ID begin with an alphabetic character.

Word replaces spaces in link target names with underscore characters. Avoid spaces in link target names in Word reports.

To set up a link target for an external link:

• In a Word report, specify a Word bookmark.

• In an HTML report, specify an HTML named anchor (for example, <a name='appendix'/>).

Properties

CustomAttributes — Custom attributes of document element

array of mlreportgen.dom.CustomAttribute objects

Custom attributes of this document element, specified as an array of mlreportgen.dom.CustomAttribute objects. The custom attributes must be supported by the output format.

Id — ID for this document element

character vector | string scalar

ID for this document element, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The DOM generates a session-unique ID when it creates the document element. You can specify your own ID.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

Name — Name of link target

character vector | string scalar

See name input argument.

Style — Format specification

array of format objects

Format objects that specify the format of a document element.

Stylename — Link target style name

character vector

The style specified by styleName must be defined in the template used to create the document element to which this link target is appended.

Tag — Tag for this document element

character vector | string scalar

Tag for this document element, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

The DOM generates a session-unique tag as part of the creation of this object. The generated tag has the form CLASS:ID, where CLASS is the object class and ID is the value of the Id property of the object. Specifying your own tag value can help you to identify where an issue occurred during document generation.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

IsXRefTarget — Whether this object is target of mlreportgen.dom.XRef in PDF report

false or 0 (default) | true or 1

Whether this object is the target of an mlreportgen.dom.XRef object in an mlreportgen.dom.Document or mlreportgen.report.Report object of type PDF, specified as a numeric or logical 1 (true) or 0 (false). For example see Use Cross-Reference Elements in a PDF Report.

Methods

Public Methods

Method	Purpose
append	Append content to link target.
clone Use LinkTarget.clone in a similar way to how you use Paragraph.clone.	Copy link target.

Examples

Link to Top of a Document

Define a link target at the top of the report and add an internal link to that target.

import mlreportgen.dom.*
import mlreportgen.utils.*
d = Document('mydoc','pdf');

p = Paragraph('This is my paragraph');
linkID = normalizeLinkID('home');
append(p,LinkTarget(linkID));
append(d,p);

p = Paragraph('This is another paragraph');
p.Style = {PageBreakBefore(true)};
append(d,p);
append(d,InternalLink(linkID,'Go to Top'));

close(d);
rptview(d);

Version History

Introduced in R2014b

Generate valid link target name for all report types

In a future release, a link target name (ID) generated by mlreportgen.utils.hash might not be valid for PDF reports. To ensure that a link target name is valid for all report types, use mlreportgen.utils.normalizeLinkID instead of mlreportgen.utils.hash.