A hyperlink field is a field that appears as a hyperlink in GE Digital APM datasheets and provides access to an internal or external location defined through a URL. For example, the baseline Inspection family contains the fields Asset ID Link and Functional Location ID Link, both of which are hyperlink fields that provide access to the equipment or location record, as appropriate.
To create a hyperlink field, you must:
Select the Hyperlink check box in the Information section. You can select this check box when you first create the field or at some later time.
Define a Default Value rule for the field that specifies the hyperlink. The link must be defined using an HTML <a> tag that contains an href element. The GE Digital APM system will interpret the HTML tag as it would be interpreted by any HTML viewer, where:
The value defined for the href element defines the destination of the link.
The text between the opening and closing <a> tags defines the text that will be displayed on the datasheet.
When you create a hyperlink field:
You can use both internal and external URLs as the destination for hyperlink fields.
Because the destination URL is defined within a default rule, the hyperlink will be the same for all records that are created within that family.
Regardless of the other rules and properties that are defined for the field, the value in a hyperlink field cannot be modified by users via the datasheet.
A given field can be either a formula field or a hyperlink field.
You must use only character fields for hyperlink fields. Using other field types as hyperlink fields may display error messages when the associated family is accessed in GE Digital APM.
Hyperlink fields can contain only one value. If you set the No. of Values Per Field to more than 1 (one), the value will be ignored.
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