---
title: "Adjust link settings to enable cross-site linking"
slug: "adjust-link-settings-to-enable-cross-site-linking"
abstract: "Enable linking between tenants and sites."
---
# Adjust link settings to enable cross-site linking

The Link rendering lets content authors add links to sites. Links can be internal links, media links, external link, anchors, mail, and JavaScript. To link within SXA tenants and sites, you must adjust the site settings.

To enable cross-site linking:

1. Set the link root location by navigating to *sitecore/Content/Tenant/Site/Settings*.
2. In the **Site Configuration** section, in the **Link Settings** field, select one of the following options:

    | Link Settings field option | Link root location |
    | --- | --- |
    | Itself only | Default value. The available link root location comes from the current site. |
    | Linkable sites in tenant | All linkable sites within the current tenant. |
    | All linkable | All linkable site within all tenants. |

    ![Link Settings](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/103/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-Site-settings-Link-field.png)

3. To make a site linkable, navigate to *sitecore/Content/Tenant/Site/Settings/Site Grouping/Site*, and in the **Basic** section, select the **Linkable Site** check box.

    ![Linkable Site checkbox](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/103/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-linkable-site.png)

For example, if you have five sites divided over two tenants: 

![Tenant example](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/103/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-tenant-structure-for-linking.PNG)

Site 5 is set to be able to link across tenants.

![All linkable sites](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/103/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-linking-all-sites.PNG)

All sites except site 2 are set to be linkable.

If you add the link component in the Experience Editor, and click **Edit Link**, in the **Insert a link** dialog box, you can link to all sites except for site 2.

![Insert a link](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/103/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-links-site2.PNG)

Another example: Site 2 is set to not be linkable, and the **Link Settings** field is set to enable linking to sites within the same tenant:

![Link Settings field](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/103/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-insert-link.PNG)

If you now insert a link in the Content Editor, you can only link to site 1 and site 3 within the same tenant.

![Insert Link](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/103/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-insert-links-within-tenant.PNG)

> [!note]
> To make non-SXA sites linkable, you must add the from SXA add the property `sxaLinkable="true"` in the configuration node of the site. For example:
>
> <site name="website" enableTracking="true" virtualFolder="/" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" language="en" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" htmlCacheSize="50MB" registryCacheSize="0" viewStateCacheSize="0" xslCacheSize="25MB" filteredItemsCacheSize="10MB" enablePreview="true" enableWebEdit="true" enableDebugger="true" disableClientData="false" cacheRenderingParameters="true" renderingParametersCacheSize="10MB" enableItemLanguageFallback="false" enableFieldLanguageFallback="false" role:require="Standalone or Reporting or ContentManagement or ContentDelivery" sxaLinkable="true" />