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Navigation Links for Reference Fields

  • July 8, 2025
  • 3 replies
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Hello,

I have a question regarding the addition of lookup/reference columns in list pages via Page Designer.

Specifically, I want to add a column, for example "Shop Order", which should display a clickable link to the referenced shop order record (e.g., linking to ShopOrder/Form:$filter?OrderNo eq 123456).

Some columns have this functionality out-of-the-box, such as Part No in the image below.

Is it possible to achieve this functionality? In my experience with Page Designer, attempting to fully replicate an out-of-the-box navigation link (such as the "Part No" example above) results in the field being displayed as plain text rather than as a clickable link. This leads me to believe that enabling true navigation links may require changes in IFS Developer Studio. 

Implementing this feature would be a significant improvement. Currently, we have to create separate buttons or actions for each link, which clutters the action panel and negatively impacts usability. Additionally, buttons do not support opening links in a new tab, whereas native links do - this reduces productivity and increases the number of clicks required from users.

 

Thank you!

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  • Do Gooder (Customer)
  • December 5, 2025

Hello karale,

i found this post by chance because i was having the same question. Did you have any luck with this topic?

Kind regards

Tammo


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  • December 8, 2025

Hello karale,

i found this post by chance because i was having the same question. Did you have any luck with this topic?

Kind regards

Tammo

Hello,

 

Unfortunately no luck. From my research, you have to make a new persistent field, that references another entity record, then Page Designer automatically makes it a lookup field / link when you add it to the page, e.g:

 

 

My initial goal / need was to have these with read-only custom attributes. I guess you could build a similar functionality with workflows, but seems like too much work..


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  • Do Gooder (Customer)
  • December 10, 2025

Even with the ability to create the persistent field referencing the other entity, my experience is that the link that is displayed passes no parameters. The user ends up frustrated at a blank page. It would be nice to at least have an option on the format of the display here (plain txt vs link) so that the user isn’t fooled into thinking the link will take them to a filtered page.