Links

Links can be used in different ways in Conducttr to direct players to specific content.

Benefit	Feature
Share exercise content directly, and let players verify a link's legitimacy before clicking it	News article links
Direct players to a different channel at the right narrative moment	Hyperlinks
Send players straight to a specific post and add a rich preview to messages, replicating real messaging app behaviour	Permanent links

Running

News article links

In article-based websites, you can share articles within the exercise.

All website links work across all channels. Whether you copy a link from the website, paste it into the address bar, or when you click to share article, both the URL and generated short link will be persistent.

Link type	Description
Copy	Copy link generates an internal link that can be pasted anywhere in your exercise and it will link to the referenced article (it will not work outside the Virtual Desktop)
External	External link generates a link that can be used outside the Virtual Desktop. The purpose of this is for when players need to create external reports (e.g. an intelligence summary INTSUM or situation report SITREP) in Powerpoint, say, or someother platform external to Conducttr. Clicking the external link will open open the browser and find the Conducttr content inside the exercise.

Click the Share icon at the top right corner of any article to share on available channels for your exercise.

Hover over URL

Participants can investigate potential phishing emails (verifying the legitimacy of a link) by hovering over it to reveal the actual URL:

If you're interested in other ways to use links during a live exercise, visit the page below:

🔥Dynamic Retweeting with Smartwords

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Designing

Hyperlinks

Use hyperlinks to take players to a different channel during the exercise. You can insert hyperlinks for any kind of content, but the most popular uses include directing players to the Portal channel when new files have been uploaded and to a specific website in the Website/News channel.

PortalWebsite/News

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Highlight inject text and click the link icon

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In the small window that opens, click the link icon again

⬆️As seen in the screenshot above.

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Select the channel you want the player to be directed to

For news articles, you can select a specific website you want the player to be directed to. The latest article will be the first shown on the website page, so this is what players will see when they follow the hyperlink.

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Players can use the hyperlink to navigate between different channels

Hyperlinks in the Virtual Desktop

Permanent links

This link will take players directly to a specific piece of content. This is different to the hyperlink option because you can direct players to social media posts, as opposed to just the channel.

Recommended use

Get permanent links for MicroBlog (Twitter/X) or InstaMedia (Instagram) posts and link them in Msngr Plus. This embeds a rich preview of the content, the same kind you'd see in messaging apps like WhatsApp. You can also use permanent links for MicroBlog injects to replicate a quote retweet.

Msngr PlusMicroBlog (Twitter/X)

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Right click on the inject you want to link to

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Select Get permanent link to copy it to your clipboard

⬆️As seen in the screenshot above.

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Paste into the body of another inject

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The link will appear as an embedded preview for the player

This simulates WhatsApp link preview and quote retweeting on Twitter/X.

Permanent links in the Virtual Desktop

⚡Things to consider

We recommend adding your permanent links near the end of an exercise build to ensure everything is up-to-date. Bear in mind that if you export and reimport an exercise file, the permanent links will change and therefore, no longer work (this is due to the fact that the link uses persona IDs which change during exporting and importing).

You can use a permanent link 'outside' of Conducttr as long as you are logged into the exercise e.g. if you're doing a presentation and want to show something specific in Conducttr, you can use the permanent link on one of your slides but make sure you're logged in.