I want to create a .dwg with clickable hyperlinks from a .shp file, however I can't see an attribute I can expose on the .dwg writer that can take the hyperlink attribute from the shp file. Does anyone know is this is possible?
Also, bit of a secondary question (that may make the first one invalid!) , but could I write this straight to an interactive PDF? (I know I can create it via (Acrobat / AutoCAD). I'm not very familair with FME's PDF capability.
Thanks.
I'd suggest you have a look at the PDFStyler. I have done what you'd like to do in a limited way by making parts of a PDF hyperlinked (logos etc), though not specific geographic features on a map. The part of the Transformer to investigate is the "Identity" parameter and you'll see you can determine both a tooltip and a URL to resolve as either static values or values from existing attributes. Under the bonnet I think these values are setting the PDF format attributes "pdf_url" and "pdf_tooltip".
Hope that helps.
I have once read out hyperlinks from a dwg.
The hyperlinks were in the format attributes of the inserts in autocad_extended_data_list{}.
So it may be possible to write them into this attribute to the blocks.
Good luck!