External URL question

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I'm trying to avoid circular references in our web app, but we are also trying to make it modular. I have a module that shows case activity, one for dashboard information and a third module that allows users to create and download reports.

When the user signs in I want all of these modules to appear as one singular web application, having a menu that allows them to navigate between all 3 modules without them knowing that there is any difference.

I believe the proper way to do this would be to design the navigation menu using a destination of ExternalURL... but I'm not sure how I determine what that URL would be. I don't want to hard code the URL for our Dev environment for each of the menu items as that would be a real headache every time we migrate between Dev/Test/Prod. Is there a better way to accomplish this?

on 2019-04-12

Domingues

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Use this fuction, it returns a string with the correct url destination

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Josh Herron

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Domingues wrote:

Use this fuction, it returns a string with the correct url destination

Okay and if I'm trying to navigate to a page that isn't the entryURL how would I go about that?

For example, my case module has 4 pages but obviously only one of those is the entry module. The others are supporting pages that the users would navigate through depending on their needs.

on 2019-04-12