Viewer Control Links
The Second Life Wiki has a useful article about Viewer URI Name Space.
It describes secondlife:/// links, which allow you to perform actions in the Viewer.
This is useful for many things, so here’s some examples that might be useful to you…
Group link
The Fans and Friends page has a big Join Our Group link near the top. If you click it, it will open The Debauched group in the Viewer.
The link goes to the following location:
secondlife:///app/group/b88ced0a-0e5d-2f38-34c2-a43bed928d6c/about
You can copy and paste that into chat, and it will appear as:
The Debauched
And if you click that link in the Viewer or on this website, you will open The Debauched group.
This is a lot easier than telling people to search for The Debauched in the Groups list, look at one of your profiles and double-click The Debauched… it’s just a single click.
You can add it to a gesture to tell people to join our group.
If you want to do one of these for another group, replace b88ced0a-0e5d-2f38-34c2-a43bed928d6c with the URI of the group.
Just open the group’s profile and then click the Copy URI button. Then replace the URI in the link with the other group’s URI.
Maps and Teleports
SLURLS/Maps links look like this:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Champion%20Isle/87/126/2001
Click it, it brings up the Maps website where you can click the Visit this Location, then have to click Teleport on the Place Profile.
Paste it into chat in your viewer, and it makes a link. Click the link
If we go with a secondlife:/// link to the world map, it will look like this:
secondlife:///app/worldmap/Champion%20Isle/87/126/2001
Click that, and it brings up the map, click the Teleport button. One less click.
Can we make it simpler? Yes. You can change worldmap to teleport in that link. When you click on that new link, you’ll directly teleport to the location when you click on it:
secondlife:///app/teleport/Champion%20Isle/87/126/2001
Welcome to the home theatre… no Map or Location Profile necessary!
Go directly to a preferences setting
First off, you can open “floater” windows with the openfloater command:
secondlife:///app/openfloater/quickpref
This opens Quick Preferences.
secondlife:///app/openfloater/people
This opens People.
secondlife:///app/openfloater/inventory
This opens Inventory.
secondlife:///app/openfloater/preferences
This opens Preferences.
And so on.
So, what’s cool is that you can directly search to a Preferences setting by using openfloater and then open the preferences floater and then tacking on what’s called a query string.
The query string comes after the question mark, and if you need spaces, replace them with %20 codes.
secondlife:///app/openfloater/preferences?search=advanced%20lighting%20model
This opens Preferences with a preloaded search for Advanced Lighting Model.
This can be useful for dropping people into specific searches for Preferences settings.
Open a tab in Preferences
There’s a another way to do this which is trickier… you need the name of the tab to open in Preferences:
secondlife:///app/openfloater/preferences?tab=display
secondlife:///app/openfloater/preferences?tab=audio
Click either of those… see which Preferences tab they open?
Label the link
Even better, you can create descriptions for the links in a gesture or chat to help audience members get to parts of their viewer to change things, like Advanced Lighting Model or turn on music:
[secondlife:///app/openfloater/preferences?tab=display Open Preferences] and enable Advanced Lighting Model.
[secondlife:///app/openfloater/preferences?tab=audio Open Preferences] and enable Streaming music. Crank it up!
The link goes between square brackets and uses the following format:
[URL Label]
You can do this with ordinary URLs, too:
[https://debauche.dance Website] [https://see.debauche.dance Calendar] [https://facebook.debauche.dance Facebook] [https://flickr.debauche.dance Flickr]