Overview

Request

The customer would like to be able to append to the URL in order to create a link that will direct anyone who clicks on it to create content in a specific category.

Desired Result

The user would click on a link which includes something similar to &category=<category_name>

Environment

Jive Hosted/On-Premise 9.0.x

Resolution

• Since categories are not an object in the database, it cannot be appended to the URL in order to create a custom link with category pre-filled.
• Tags, however, can be automatically added via the URL to make filtering requests much quicker. Below is an example of a link that will create a document in a Space (container type of 14) with container ID of 2004 with the tag being ThisTag
  <INSTANCE URL>/document/create.jspa?containerType=14&containerID=2004&ID=&tags=ThisTag&subject=

  This will allow the customer to quickly and easily filter by tag and bulk categorize all items with that tag.