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ADMINISTRATOR: Adding hyperlinks for external sites

This article would only be applicable to users with an Administrator system role on their account, as this feature would not be accessible for non-administrator users. Administrator users may wish to also read this article relating to Hyperlinks to Support Docs for further information.

SARD allows you to add and edit guidance text across several areas of the site, including the Appraisal & Portfolio, which is helpful if you wish to add notes about certain organisation-related policies and processes.

Along with any guidance notes and instructional text, you can also add web hyperlinks to any external websites that your users may need to use, such as Declaration of Interest sites, or other sites that provide administrative tools.

To add hyperlinks, you will need to use some basic internet coding, or Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

Let's say you wish to add some guidance text in a portfolio section asking your users to review the Medical Appraisal Guide information on the NHS' website.

You could include a note to say something like: "Please ensure you have read the guidance text found on the NHS website by visiting the page here" with a hyperlink to the page in question stored within the word 'here':

The href attribute tells the linking words which website to go to, and linking words in between the brackets are whatever words you wish to add as the link to the site. So for the example we are using, it would look like this:

and you would add this in with your guidance notes, and around the linking word, in this case “here”. Once saved, the text will appear to your users like this:

"Please ensure you've read the guidance text found on the NHS website by visiting the page here."

Another way to phrase this link would be to put the text "Please ensure you've read the NHS MAG form guidance by visiting the NHS Website", and using the above HTML you can then just change the linking words like so:

so it would appear like this:

"Please ensure you’ve read the NHS MAG form guidance by visiting the NHS Website."

and the highlighted 'NHS Website' text would take them to the site.

Hooray, you have done some coding! You have also made your SARD site easier for your end users to use.

Please be aware that it is important to follow the formatting as shown and to ensure to open and close brackets properly, as well as include a forward slash in the closing bracket (</a), and so on.

If you are unsure or get stuck, please let us know at support@sardjv.co.uk, and we will be happy to take a look for you.

Updated on: 04/08/2026

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