Show TOC

Navigation with Quick LinksLocate this document in the navigation structure

Use

Quick links are shortcuts to iViews, pages, roles, or worksets. Each quick link is a string that you add to the default portal URL to navigate to a specific portal object.

Quick links provide a meaningful name for portal objects to which users may want to navigate.

Integration

Quick links are created by setting the Quick Link property of a portal object. They can be assigned to any portal object navigation node to which navigation is possible.

To view the portal object, append a slash ( / ) to the default portal URL, followed by the quick link.

For example, if the base address of the portal is http://myServer:50000/irj/portal and the quick link to the page is myQuickLink , a URL to the page would be:

http://myServer:50000/irj/portal/myQuickLink

The following rules apply to quick links:

  • Quick links must be composed of only URI unreserved characters, which are letters, digits, hyphen (-), period (.), underscore (_) and tilde (~).

  • If you assign a quick link to an invisible node, the page is displayed but the top-level and detailed navigation iViews do not highlight the nodes in the selected path.

Unique Quick Links

Quick links should be unique within the portal. However, nothing prevents you from creating a duplicate quick link. If one quick link string is defined for two navigation nodes, the first node in the user's navigation tree is displayed.

There is no tool for identifying duplicate quick links.

To avoid duplicate quick links, you can define an entire path as a quick link by adding a quick link to each node in the navigation path of an object. The URL to the page in this case would be, for example:

http://myServer:50000/irj/portal/NavNode1/NavNode2/myQuickLink