Setting Bookmarks

Use

If you want to return to a particular navigational status (that includes the level to which a hierarchy has been expanded) of a Web application or an ad-hoc query that has been created on the Web, you can set a bookmark to enable you to recall this navigational status at a later date. The system creates a URL for the bookmark that you can call up at any time.

Prerequisites

You are in a Web application that you created in the usual way or that you called up on an ad-hoc basis from the Query Designer using (Display Query on the Web) from the standard Web template. You have arrived at a navigational status for which you want to set a bookmark.

Procedure

From the context menu (left mouse click) of any cell (in the query) in the Web application, choose Bookmark
In Web applications that you have created on an ad-hoc basis using the standard Web template, you have the additional option of using the toolbar to set a bookmark for the navigational state that you want to save:
From the Web application toolbar, choose (Bookmark)

Result

The system generates a URL that can be used as a bookmark. This URL is displayed in the address line of your Web browser.

Save the URL to other files using copy and paste so that you are able to access bookmarks again later.

Caution

If you make changes to the structure of the Web template, to which a bookmark relates, for example, if you rename or remove any of the Web items or data provider contained in the Web template, the system is no longer able to assign the status stored in the bookmark. The Web items or data provider that are affected cannot be instantiated completely. As a result, the Web items that draw their data from the data provider that has been changed cannot be displayed in the Web application.
You can modify the layout, for example, by changing the HMTL code. These changes become visible when you refresh the bookmark.
If you add new Web items or data providers to the Web template that the bookmark refers to, these are not displayed when the bookmark is refreshed.

You manage bookmarks in the Reporting Agent. For more information, see Managing Bookmarks .