External Link Plugin
Purpose
The External Link page plugin allows to open an external link directly from the OMN sidebar, e.g. a reference to another website or an online documentation, to navigate to another URL (Webpages, etc.).
Also, the External Link can be configured as a Page Plugin.
Possible Usage of the plugin
The External Link plugin can be used in:
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Sidebar menu of the Frontend (see Sidebar configuration)
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Page Plugin
General configuration
The configuration of External Link plugin includes the following parts:
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General |
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See more details "General" |
Usages |
On this page the user can see the relations of the External Link plugin to other plugins. |
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Localizations |
On this page the user can localize his/her own External Link plugin to see wished terms in the UI of External Link. |
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History |
On this page the user can overview all modifications made in External Link plugin and have an initial state available as a file to understand who, when and what changes within the configuration. |
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Roles and Access |
On this page the user can restrict the access to the plugin for certain roles. |
| Management of the plugin instances is done in the same way throughout the whole Configuration Client. The details on this common concept can be found here. |
Appearance in the frontend
All details of the External link plugin in the frontend can be found here.