mlreportgen.ppt.ExternalLink Class

Namespace: mlreportgen.ppt
Superclasses: mlreportgen.ppt.Text

Hyperlink to location outside of presentation

Description

Use an object of the mlreportgen.ppt.ExternalLink class to define a hyperlink to a location outside of the presentation.

The mlreportgen.ppt.ExternalLink class is a handle class.

Class Attributes

HandleCompatible	true
ConstructOnLoad	true

For information on class attributes, see Class Attributes.

Creation

Description

externalLinkObj = ExternalLink creates an empty mlreportgen.ppt.ExternalLink object.

externalLinkObj = ExternalLink(target,linkText) creates an mlreportgen.ppt.ExternalLink object with the Target property set to target and the Content property to linkText.

Properties

Target — Target URL of link

"" (default) | character vector | string scalar

Target URL of link, specified as a character vector or a string scalar.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

Content — Link text

"" (default) | character vector | string scalar

Link text, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

Bold — Whether to use bold for link text

[] (default) | true | false

Whether to use bold for the link text, specified as true or false. A setting of true renders text in bold.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: logical

Font — Font family for link text

[] (default) | character vector | string scalar

Font family for the link text, specified as a character vector or string scalar. Specify a font that appears in the font list in Microsoft^® PowerPoint^®. To see the font list, in PowerPoint, on the Home tab, in the Font group, click the arrow to the right of the font.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

ComplexScriptFont — Font family for complex scripts

[] (default) | character vector | string scalar

Font family for complex scripts, specified as a character vector or string scalar. Specify a font family to use when substituting in a locale that requires a complex script, such as Arabic or Asian, to render text.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

FontColor — Font color for link text

[] (default) | character vector | string scalar

Font color for the link text, specified as a character vector or string scalar that contains a CSS color name or hexadecimal RGB value.

• To use the name of a color, specify a CSS color name. For a list of CSS color names, seehttps://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/color/keywords.

• To specify a hexadecimal RGB format, use # as the first character and two-digit hexadecimal numbers for the red, green, and blue values. For example, "#0000ff" specifies blue.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

FontSize — Font size for link text

[] (default) | character vector | string scalar

Font size for the link text, specified as a character vector or string scalar that contains a number followed by a unit of measurement. For example, "11pt" specifies 11 points. Valid abbreviations are:

• "px" — Pixels

• "cm" — Centimeters

• "in" — Inches

• "mm" — Millimeters

• "pc" — Picas

• "pt" — Points

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

Italic — Whether to use italic for link text

[] (default) | true | false

Whether to use italic for the link text, specified as true or false. A setting of true renders text in italic.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: logical

Strike — Strikethrough style for link text

[] (default) | "single" | "none" | "double"

Strikethrough style for the link text, specified as one of these values:

• "single" — Single horizontal line

• "none" — No strikethrough line

• "double" — Double horizontal line

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Subscript — Whether to display link text as a subscript

[] (default) | true | false

Whether to display the link text as a subscript, specified as true or false. A setting of true renders text as a subscript.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: logical

Superscript — Whether to display link text as a superscript

[] (default) | true | false

Whether to display the link text as a superscript, specified as true or false. A setting of true renders text as a superscript.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: logical

Underline — This property is ignored

[] (default)

This property is ignored.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Style — Link text formatting

[] (default) | cell array of PPT format objects

Link text formatting, specified as a cell array of PPT format objects.

Add format objects by concatenating the existing value of the Style property with a cell array that contains the format objects that you are adding. For example:

link = mlreportgen.ppt.ExternalLink(3,"link text");
link.Style = [link.Style {Bold(true)}];

See Presentation Formatting Approaches.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: cell

Parent — Parent of this object

PPT API object

Parent of this object, specified as a PPT API object. A PPT API object must only have one parent.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	private
NonCopyable	true

Children — This property is ignored

not applicable

The class ignores this property.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	private
NonCopyable	true

Tag — Tag

character vector | string scalar

Tag, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The PPT API 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. Use this value to help identify where an issue occurs during document generation.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

Id — Object identifier

character vector | string scalar

Object identifier, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The PPT API generates a session-unique identifier when it creates the document element object. You can specify your own value for Id.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

Methods

Public Methods

clone

objCopy = clone(obj) returns a copy of the mlreportgen.ppt.ExternalLink object specified by obj. Use the clone method of an mlreportgen.ppt.ExternalLink object the same way that you use the clone method of a Paragraph object.

Examples

Add an External Link to a Presentation

Create a presentation that includes a link to a web site.

Create a presentation.

import mlreportgen.ppt.*
ppt = Presentation("myExternalLinkPresentation.pptx");
open(ppt);

Add a slide to the presentation.

slide = add(ppt,"Title and Content");

Create an mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph object.

p = Paragraph("This is a link to the ");

Create an mlreportgen.ppt.ExternalLink object and append it to the paragraph.

link = ExternalLink("https://www.mathworks.com","MathWorks site");
append(p,link);

Replace the slide content with the paragraph.

replace(slide,"Content",p);

Close and view the presentation.

close(ppt);
rptview(ppt);

Here is the link in the generated slide.

Version History

Introduced in R2015b