Several of the navigation links give you two ways to travel. You can take users either on a one-way trip, known as a jump, or on a round trip, known as a call.
A jump is a simple, straightforward trip from a current location to a destination. A call keeps track of the current location so that after it arrives at its destination, it can return to the spot it came from.
Let's say you've built a help system into the course you've created. You want to structure the course's navigation so that users can get to the help system from anywhere in the course and return automatically to the place they came from when they're finished. To do that, you'd call the help system rather than jump to it.
The navigate icon where a call starts (and to which it eventually returns) can be either inside a framework or on the flowline outside. However, the destination of the outbound leg of the round trip must be a page attached to a framework icon. There's also one restriction on using a call that doesn't apply to a jump. You can jump between pages within the same framework, but you can call a page only if it's in a different framework.
A call requires two navigate icons: one to take Authorware to the destination and another at the destination to take Authorware back where it came from. (Either navigate icon can also be replaced with a hot-text hypertext link.) At the destination, the navigate icon that sends Authorware on its return trip must be set to Exit Framework/Return.
When Authorware returns, it doesn't go back to the exact place it came from. If it did, it would return to the navigate icon where it started its journey and start the trip all over again. Instead it goes to the point on the flowline immediately following the place it departed from. If you attach a map icon to a framework and then set up a navigate icon inside it to call another page, when Authorware returns to the map, it returns not to the beginning of the map, but to the place in the map immediately following where it left from.
All the different types of links allow you to set up a jump. The following three also let you set up a call: