There's a very good chance that you will be content with using the web links that come with ACT!. However, it's easy to tweak the existing links a bit should you decide that you'd like to modify them. There are two areas that you can change:
- The link name
- The ACT! field that links to the website
Prior to changing an existing link it's a good idea to first familiarize yourself with them so that you aren't wasting your efforts by creating a new link that serves the same purpose as an existing one. As an example, the Google Search link searches for information based on the name that appears in the contact field. You might decide that you'd prefer to search Google based on the contents of the company field. In that case you might find that the Google News Search, which searches based on the company field, does the job nicely. However, if you would prefer to change the criterion used for the Google Search you can do that as well.
- Click the Web Info tab from a Contact Detail or Company Detail view.
- Click Edit Links.
- Select a website to edit in the Edit User Links dialog box that appears.
- Click Advanced Edit. The Advanced Edit dialog window opens like the one you see in the following figure:
- Type in a different Site Name if you'd like to change the existing one (optional).
- Highlight the name of the field you wish to change as well as the surrounding brackets in the Source URL area.
- Select the new field from the Select Fields area.
- Click the Add button to replace the existing field name with the new one.
- Click OK to close the Advanced Edit dialog window.
- Click OK again to close the Edit User Links dialog window.