The reply in the Database Managers Tessitura Community by Michael Dorsey inspired me to think about this idea again, do a little searching on the network site, and then eventually file an Idea on the topic:
Store Hyperlinks in Constituent Documents
https://community.tessituranetwork.com/ideas/i/ideas/store-hyperlinks-in-constituent-documents
Documents would be wildly more useful if we could use them to store hyperlinks: basically the link would not initiate a download, it would just send the link to the user's default browser. This would allow users to, for instance, easily record a relevant online article about the customer (example number 1 in the Documents documentation), but it would be most useful for working documents: most organizations these days are using collaborative document systems, either Google Drive or Office 365 (probably there are others?), and most other workplace tools, whether operations scheduling, customer research, grant management, etc. are also collaborative web applications these days.