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Linking

Introduction

Linking allows you to refer to specific data stored in Tables using query parameters in the address bar of your web browser. When you navigate through the various views of Tables, the URL, and the query parameter contained therein, is automatically updated and serve as a reference of the resource you are interacting with. As long as you do not delete or rename a resource, URLs persist across browsing sessions, i. e. the corresponding pages can be bookmarked and revisted at a later point in time.

Creating links

You can save or bookmark a link by copying the URL from the address bar of your web browser. Alternatively, you can obtain it via the drop-down menu of the resource you are listing. In a table view, select the action Link from the drop-down menu of the row you want to save. In the list of tables and collections, select the action Link from the drop-down menu of the table you want to save. Either option displays the Link/URL for your convenience.

Views

The query parameters constituting a Link/URL must contain the key called view, which denotes the view that will be displayed, with the remaining parameters serving as specifiers of the target resource. If view is unspecifed, the initial view depends on your previous activities.

• If you used Tables before to display a table view, the last table you browsed will be displayed.
• If you never used Tables before, index is the default view.

Acceptable values for view and accompanying parameters are as follows:

• index

  Parameters: none

  Display a list of tables and collections.

• table

  Parameters: table; optional: row

  Display a table view of table table. If specified, row serves as a row ID, which is inserted into the search field of the table view. To make the rows of a table retrievable via their row ID, set the flag searchable of the column _id to true.

  Example:

  ?view=table&table=foo

• row

  Parameters: table, row

  Display a list of all columns and their values of row row of table table.

  Example:

  ?view=row&table=foo&row=ebeb10ac-c051-11ee-8436-8f061bd14191

• audit

  Parameters: table; optional: row

  Display the audit log of table table. If row is specified, only audit records related to this row are displayed.

  Example:

  ?view=audit&table=foo&row=77f7d062-c052-11ee-8dbd-db63ccf2c513