Purpose
Links view helps employees quickly find and jump into other enterprise tools and destinations. It's a flexible launchpad that provides a single place to organize all your applications and resources.
Overview
Links are organized into two types of Link Categories: My Link Categories (managed by each individual user) and Shared Link Categories (managed by System Administrators). Shared Link Categories are only visible to the users they target, which could be a team, location, department, or everyone.
If the linked-to destination permits embedding, it can be configured to open right in the Jostle application. Otherwise it will open in a new browser tab.
If the user is logged into Jostle via single sign-on (SSO), when they launch a application from Links that also uses SSO, they will arrive logged in.
How to create a new Links Category
How to create a new My Link Category
Users can a create a new Links Category for their own use by:
- Click Links in the Main Navigation
- On the slide-out panel, click the “+” in the Action Bar and select “Category”
- Enter a name for your Category and then click the Save button at the top of the screen.
How to creat a new Shared Link Category
System Administrators can create a new Shared Link Category by:
- Click Links in the Main Navigation
- Enter a Category Name
- On the slide-out panel, click the “+” in the Action Bar and select “Category”
- Clicking the "Share this Category" box
- Setting the required visibility using the List Selector
- Click the Save button at the top of the screen.
How to add a new link
To create new links in Links view, users (including System Administrators):
- Select Links from the Main Navigation
- On the slide-out panel, click the “+” in the Action Bar and select “Item”
- Enter the name and URL of the website or resource you want to save in the fields provided.
- Choose the Category the link will be organized into. If you only have one Category, it will automatically selected.
- Once you're done, click the Save button at the top of the screen.
Adding links from a Links Category
You can also add new links directly from the Links Category you want them in. Simply open the Category and click the “+” and choose "New Link". To do this in a Shared Links Category you need to be a System Administrator.
How to embed a link in Links view
When creating or editing a link in Links view, there is a section to embed the link. If the destination at the URL does not permit embedding, this section will be greyed out (as in the image above). When the destination permits embedding, checking the "Embed" box will cause the destination to open right in Jostle. To learn more on embedding go here).
Managing Links Categories
To manage a Category, open it and open the Action Menu (three dots) at the top of its list of links. From here you can edit its settings or delete the category. To do this in a Shared Links Category you need to be a System Administrator.
WARNING—deleting a Links Category will remove all the links in that Category.
Managing links in Links view
To edit a link listed in Links Category click on its Action Menu (To do this in a Shared Links Category you need to be a System Administrator). From here you can:
- Edit (rename it, embed it*, or update the URL)
- Move (place it in a different Category)
- Select (if you want to take an action on multiple items)
- Delete (remove it from the list, can be used with Select to remove many at once)
Renaming Links view
Links view can be renamed by System Administrators at Administration Settings > Views and Functions > Manage Views and Options. When doing this, you need to provide both the View Name and the name of the items it contains (the links). This allows Links view to be used for different or more specific purposes.
If you are running a trail version of Links, the change name functions will be found in Admin Settings > Views and Options > Try Other Views and Options.
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