Quick Links

iKnowBase enables you to create quick links for one-click publishing in iKnowBase. A quick link is associated with a form or a task wizard, and a target where the form or task wizard is displayed. You can specify parameters for the quick link to pass contextual values in order to populate attributes of the form or task wizard.

You can use quick links from four other iKnowBase components:

Viewer
Search source
Presentation style
Menu

A quick link may point to either one or more forms:

If the quick link points to a single form, using the quick link opens that form directly.
If the quick link points to more than one form, using the quick link opens a dialog page and asks the user which form to use.

Properties

This section describes the properties of a quick link, as shown on the corresponding Edit pane tabs.

Edit Tab

Property	Description
Subsystem	Select the appropriate subsystem.
Title	Type a title for this quick link.
Description	Type a description for this quick link.
Target	Select the target page in which to display the form.
Add form	Click the link to add new forms. You can reorder the list of forms/task wizards by using drag and drop.
Add task	Click the link to add new task wizard
Type	Displays the type; either form or task wizard.
Form/Task wizard	Displays the names of the available forms and task wizards.
Title	Type the title use to select this form. Applicable if the quick link contains multiple forms and task wizards and hence needs a title in the dialog window.
Target from form	Select this check box to override the Target property of the quick link with the target specified for the form or task wizard.

Parameters Tab

You can add parameters to the quick link, passing contextual values to the selected form or task wizard and hence the new document that you will create.

You can use three types of parameters with quick links:

iKnowBase: Parameters defined as iKnowBase parameters, both iKnowBase and SQL, and parameters defined for iKnowBase external data sources.
Function: Parameters defined as database functions. A value returned from the given database function is passed on to the form or task wizard.
Constant: Parameters defined with a constant value.

Property	Description
Description	Displays the types of the parameters associated with this quick link. You can use two types of parameters associated with quick links: iKnowBase parameters and functions. See the introduction to this chapter for a description of the parameter types. To add a new parameter, click on the new parameters icon for the appropriate parameter type. To remove a parameter, click on the respective remove icon.
Parameter in form	Select the target parameter you want to assign value to. The list of selectable parameters is the union of all declared url parameters in all selected forms for this quick link.
Value	For iKnowBase parameter: Select the parameter whose value you want to pass on to the form or task wizard. For Function parameter: Select the PL/SQL database function that will generate the parameter value. For Constant parameter: Type the constant value.

Property

Description

Displays the types of the parameters associated with this quick link.

You can use two types of parameters associated with quick links: iKnowBase parameters and functions. See the introduction to this chapter for a description of the parameter types.

To add a new parameter, click on the new parameters icon for the appropriate parameter type.

To remove a parameter, click on the respective remove icon.

Parameter in form

Select the target parameter you want to assign value to. The list of selectable parameters is the union of all declared url parameters in all selected forms for this quick link.

Value

For iKnowBase parameter:
Select the parameter whose value you want to pass on to the form or task wizard.

For Function parameter:
Select the PL/SQL database function that will generate the parameter value.

For Constant parameter:
Type the constant value.

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