Field Values as a Hyperlink and Type Icon

Fields can be configured to display data as a hyperlink and with a type icon to the left of the hyperlinked text data.

For example, suppose you want a field to display the name of the current business object with the object's type icon displayed to the left of the name. In View mode, the name is hyperlinked. When a user clicks the link, the system passes to the href URL the ID for the business object the page applies to. The ID is passed using the objectId parameter. The View mode for such a field is shown below.



When this field is displayed on a form in Edit mode, the data is not hyperlinked because Edit mode doesn't display hyperlinks. The field would look like this.



To configure a field so the data is hyperlinked when shown on a form in View mode, use these parameters and settings


  • href parameter--Enter the JSP to call when the user clicks the hyperlinked data. The JSP can include parameters accepted by the JSP and path information, including directory macros.
  • Target Location setting--Use this setting to specify where the href JSP should be displayed: popup, content, _top, or any valid frame name.

To configure a field to include the type icon for the current object, use this setting


  • Show Type Icon setting--Set this setting to true.

The following graphics show how the Name field, shown previously, is configured in Business Modeler. In addition to the parameters and settings that make the data hyperlinked and that add the type icon, the field has settings that make the field required when the form is in Edit mode.