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.

Access the plugin via

Modules → Page plugins → External Link

Possible Usage of the plugin

The External Link plugin can be used in:

  • Sidebar menu of the Frontend (see Sidebar configuration)

  • Page Plugin

Supported plugins

The External Link plugin does not support other direct plugins.

Preconditions

Sidebar should be configured for using the External Link plugin.

General configuration

The configuration of External Link plugin includes the following parts:

Tab name Description Note

General

  • On this page the user can configure:

    • links to external content in the Sidebar to navigate to another URL

    • the description of the use case of the URL which is configured

    • how to open the URL: in a new browser tab or in the same browser tab

    • whether the external link will be opened inside the shared context

See more details "General"

Usages

On this page the user can see the relations of the External Link plugin to other plugins.

Localizations

On this page the user can localize his/her own External Link plugin to see wished terms in the UI of External Link.

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.

Roles and Access

On this page the user can restrict the access to the plugin for certain roles.

ExternalLink CC configuration
Figure 1. The configuration structure of the External Link plugin
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.

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