Document Classes ⇒ Beamer linking within document

[workerbee]

Hi All,

I was wondering how to link to other frames within the same Beamer document? (Similar to adding hyperlinks within Power Point to other slides in the same presentation.)

Any feedback would be helpful and appreciated, thanks!

[frabjous]

Sure. The easiest way would be something like this. First, put:

\usepackage{hyperref}

in the preamble.

Then give the frame you want to link to a label, e.g.

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\begin{frame}[label=GO_HERE]
(This is the destination frame.)
\end{frame}

Replace the label with whatever seems appropriate.

Then create the link wherever you want it to be using a code like this:

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\hyperlink{GO_HERE}{\beamergotobutton{Go to my frame}}

Replace "Go to my frame" with whatever you want the link text to be.

[workerbee]

Thanks for the quick response! I tried this out and unfortunately keep getting an error message. Should the

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\usepackage{hyperref}

command be placed in a certain order in the preamble?

Currently this is my preamble:

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\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{makeidx,epsfig,lscape}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{mdwlist}
\usepackage{times}
\usetheme{default}
\usefonttheme{serif}
\usepackage{hyperref}

[frabjous]

Actually looking again at the beamer documentation, it says that it loads hyperref by default, so I think you can just leave that out.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

I tried this out and unfortunately keep getting an error message.

why don't you tell us the error message?
Yes, hyperref will already be loaded by the beamer class.

Stefan

[workerbee]

I tried leaving it out and for some reason I still keep getting errors.

Here's my sample:

(frame #3)

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\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Data set 1, analysis step 3: missing data modeling}
\begin{eqnarray}
[y, m] &=& [y] \; [m | y], \label{selection} \\
& =& [m] \; [y|m], \label{pmm}
\end{eqnarray}
\begin{equation}
[y, m] = \sum_{c} [c] \; [m|c] \; [y|c], \label{shared}
\end{equation}
\hyperlink{frame6}{\beamergotobutton{Go to frame 6}}
\end{frame}

and this is the target/destination frame (#6):

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\begin{frame}[label=frame6]
\frametitle{Table 4: Summary of joint missing data indicator and outcome analyses for data set 1}
\begingroup
\begin{center}
 \setlength\extrarowheight{2pt}
 \begin{tabular}{ l c c c }
 \hline
 \\[-2.3mm]
 Model & LL & \# par.'s & BIC \\
 \\[-2.3mm]
 \hline
 \\[-2.3mm]
 MAR (23 class) & -6487 & 55 & 13271 \\
 Pattern-Mixture (23 class) & -6403 & 165 & 13699 \\
 Latent Class Pattern-Mixture (2-class) & -6491 & 56 & 13286 \\
 \\[-2.3mm]
 \hline
 \end{tabular}
\end{center}
\endgroup
\end{frame}

Did I do this correctly? Sorry for the constant barrage of questions.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I tried leaving it out and for some reason I still keep getting errors.

As long as you don't tell us the error messages it's hard to help. The code pieces above are compilable. Consider to post a complete minimal example that's bringing the error.

By the way you should use the align environment of amsmath instead of the obsolete eqnarray environment. Compare the spaces around the equal signs of the 3 formulas in frame #3 or have a look at eqnarray vs. align.

Stefan

[workerbee]

This was the error message:

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2c 7.5.2)
The top-level auxiliary file: skip-sample.aux
I found no \citation commands---while reading file skip-sample.aux
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file skip-sample.aux
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file skip-sample.aux
(There were 3 error messages)


*** BibTeX produced the following log file "skip-sample.blg":

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2c 7.5.2)
The top-level auxiliary file: skip-sample.aux
I found no \citation commands---while reading file skip-sample.aux
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file skip-sample.aux
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file skip-sample.aux
You've used 0 entries,
0 wiz_defined-function locations,
83 strings with 496 characters,
and the built_in function-call counts, 0 in all, are:
= -- 0
> -- 0
< -- 0
+ -- 0
- -- 0
* -- 0
:= -- 0
add.period$ -- 0
call.type$ -- 0
change.case$ -- 0
chr.to.int$ -- 0
cite$ -- 0
duplicate$ -- 0
empty$ -- 0
format.name$ -- 0
if$ -- 0
int.to.chr$ -- 0
int.to.str$ -- 0
missing$ -- 0
newline$ -- 0
num.names$ -- 0
pop$ -- 0
preamble$ -- 0
purify$ -- 0
quote$ -- 0
skip$ -- 0
stack$ -- 0
substring$ -- 0
swap$ -- 0
text.length$ -- 0
text.prefix$ -- 0
top$ -- 0
type$ -- 0
warning$ -- 0
while$ -- 0
width$ -- 0
write$ -- 0
(There were 3 error messages)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Use pdflatex (or latex) to compile, not bibtex.

Stefan

[workerbee]

Sorry, found the error. I forgot to place the image files in the same folder as the tex file.