To set the launch property for a page

1. Open the page.

2. Choose Design - Page Properties. The Page Properties box opens.

3. Click the Launch tab.

4. Select one of the following objects to launch automatically when a user opens the page:

• First Attachment
• First Document Link
• First OLE Object
• None (default)
• URL

To set the launch property for a form

1. Open the form.

2. Choose Design - Form Properties to open the Form Properties box.

3. Click the Launch tab.

4. For forms, select one of the following objects to launch automatically when a user opens the document created with this form:

• First Attachment
• First Document Link
• First OLE Object
• None (default)
• URL
• Other objects, including the following:

Bitmap Image, Lotus ScreenCam Movie, Lotus Word Pro 9 Document, Media Clip, MIDI Sequence, Netscape Hypertext Document, Package, Paintbrush Picture, Wave Sound, WordPad Document.

• Create a rich text field on the form and name the field URL.
• At the Launch tab of the Form Properties box, select URL.
• Create a document using this form.
• In the rich text field named URL, create a Link Hotspot (Create - Hotspot - Link Hotspot) for the URL you want to automatically launch.
• Close and reopen the document and the Web page should display in your browser.

See Also

Setting application launch properties
Launching a page or form into a frameset

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