hyperlinking author names in biblatex when using \citeauthor

Question

Using biblatex, the \citeauthor no longer is hyperlinked by default (as done in natbib). I am currently desperately looking for a way to make it a hyperlink ... any suggestion welcome

Answer 1

Just apply the bibhyperref format in the citation command:

\DeclareCiteCommand{\citeauthor}
  {\boolfalse{citetracker}%
   \boolfalse{pagetracker}%
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\ifciteindex
     {\indexnames{labelname}}
     {}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{\printnames{labelname}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

Definitions for bibhyperref and \citeauthor can be found in biblatex.def.