Data Director Implementation Guide

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Bookmarks

Bookmarks are URLs that open an IDD application and shows a view, task, or search.

Bookmarks are available for IDD applications that use the subject area model.

The URL specifies which IDD application to invoke, which part of the application to open, and which entity to display. Bookmarks can be used to invoke IDD from an external application (for example, an Informatica MDM Data Control, or IDC), or from a browser. Users can share a bookmark URL with another user. When the user opens the URL in a browser, the user must successfully log in to the IDD application to see the view.

Within an IDD application, you can link to Show Bookmark commands on the pages. These commands provide the URL link for the current entity. Bookmarks are available for the following functionality: Data View, Hierarchy View, tasks, and searches.

The format for the URL is:

http://<host>[:<port>]/bdd/?deeplink=<operation>;<iddAppName>/<subjectAreaID>;<param1>[;<param2>]

Where:

Variable	Description
`host`	Name of the machine that hosts the Informatica MDM Hub.
`port`	Optional. Port number.
`operation`	One of the following values: openrecord;dv - opens an entity in the Data View openrecord;hm - opens an entity in the Hierarchy View opentask - opens a task window search - opens a search window
`iddAppName`	Name of the IDD application.
`subjectAreaID`	Identifies the subject area. Uses the following format: subjectAreaGroupName/SubjectAreaName
`param1`	Defines what data to display and is dependent on the operation.
`param2`	Optional. Operation dependent.

Any character that is not allowed in a URL must be double encoded. Double encoding (running the encoding process twice) is required to allow web servers to accept requests containing slashes (“/” and “\”) in its parameters. Requests containing single-encoded slashes used in parameters are rejected by web servers. Only the parameter values should be double encoded.

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