Snapshots are a useful feature of Hypercities. They allow you to save a certain configuration of Hypercities — objects, maps, and viewport settings — and reload it later. The links you use can be embedded as links within Hypercities objects themselves, so that clicking on a link can take a user to a different time and place. Xreatig them is fairly simple. It requires a little bit of knowledge of HTML, but not too much. Here’s how:
1. Create your snapshot. To do this, set up Hypercities exactly as you want it, then click on the snapshot button. Remember the number at the end of the URL that you’ll be given.
2. Open the object that you want to put the link to the snapshot inside. Click on the “HTML” button. This will display the HTML source code of the text in your object. Find the text you want the user to click on to display the snapshot. Just before the text, without leaving a space, enter the following:
<a snapshotid=”1234″>
Replace 1234 with the number you were given when you created the snapshot.
Just after the text, again without leaving a space, enter this: </a>
What you should end up with is something like the following:
<a snapshotid=”1234″>Click me to display the snapshot!</a>
3. Save your edits as normal. Now, when a user clicks on the link, they should be taken to the exact state you created. Clicking on the link again will take them back.
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