Question - Favorites Links to Section Group or Notebook

[dwillis77]

Hello, just a quick question. Sometimes on favorites I may need to link to a section group or even a notebook instead of just a page or section. Is there some way I could manually modify the stored Favorites link to point at a section group or notebook instead? (e.g. if it is stored in some XML file somewhere or something)

Or better yet - if we were able to add the ability to add current section group or notebook to favorites as a feature in the future, that would be great! But for the time being, a manual modification workaround would be fine for me as it's not super-often that I'm saving these links.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

[jasonjac2]

Just to be clear AFAIK Notebook, Section (and possibly section group - if they are a thing) links take you to whatever the last page you visited in that structure - is that what you are after?

[stevencohn]

Yes, it's possible. And, yes, it would default to the last page you visited in that scope.

[jasonjac2]

OK, so my work around is to have a ToC (OneMore) as my 1st page in a section and have the shortcut to that.

[stevencohn]

I suppose it would be possible to treat these uniquely and the Favorite would know to lookup the first page and navigate to that regardless of what it is...

[jasonjac2]

I would vote for slicker re-order; aliases (that override incremental filter); favourite tabs / folders or some mechanism for having fav collections that is slick to navigate.

Aside: I think Fav's are read from the XML everytime you invoke them in the dialogue, so I am intending manually editing the file to do some of the above (I am manually editing to re-order to overcome a bug).

[dwillis77]

@jasonjac2 Understood, and yes that is what I'd be looking for in these cases. The workaround you mentioned is a good idea - I may try that as well. A manual edit of the favorites.xml file here and there would work for me but linking to a ToC would definitely take it a step further.

@stevencohn Any method of allowing me to link to a group or notebook (even if it just takes me to the last visited page) would work for me. Beyond that, something that involved jumping to a ToC for the destination or even better, something that perhaps offered to auto-generate a ToC for the "destination scope" (current section, current section group or current notebook, depending on what sort of favorite was added) when adding a favorite to something other than a page would be really cool. I've only just started to play around with the ToC (and other "snippet") functionality in OneMore - very impressed so far.