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Submitted by WayneK on 2019/04/13 17:52

Is there any way to control which grid location is used when you link to an item?

A little experimenting suggests a link to Item #1 will always take you to Item #1 in its home grid.

But what if I want to link to Item #1 at its location in another grid? Or at its location as a particular subitem (vs other subitem locations when it has multiple parents)?

Couldn't find this addressed in the manual

Wayne

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Hi Wayne, check out this screenshot from the manual section on hyperlinks:

Notice it says "If linking to a single item, you can specify the grid, such as 1280 | Inbox"

So it looks like you would use the item ID number, followed by the pipe character, then the Grid name?

Thanks, Jim. I actually read that but somehow missed that section.

Wayne

I had never created a hyperlink to an item in a specific grid, so I did a little experimenting. Using "(ItemID) (Pipe Symbol) (Grid Name)" as the link destination does in fact take you to that specific item in the grid you specified. If the destination grid is not already opened, it is opened. If the destination grid has a filter that prevents the target Item from being displayed in the context of that grid - the target item is nevertheless shown, with the destination grid hoisted to that specific item. Try it and you will see what I mean!

Pierre, I made a hyperlink to show an item in a specific grid "Storage Devices". Tonight I am finding the link works if Storage Devices is NOT enclosed in brackets, but doesn't work if I use [Storage Devices] in the hyperlink. Is that the desired behavior? (I thought that it didn't work earlier today until I did use the brackets, but I must be wrong about that.)

Hi Jim,

Square brackets are used for fields, not grids. I could filter it out of course, but for now, it isn't

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

ahhh !! my brain froze!