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Tiki support URL arguments and they can be used to interact with the Trackers and the plugins displaying or creating items. For example you can define a default value for a field in a customSearch or force the insertion of a value when creating an item.

Examples

~tc~ This displayed only the field childrenIdNumber in the create item form. Need a fix ?

To set a link that will create a new item and insert a value in a field

Here we use it to create an item with a specific value for field.
(replace "childrenIdNumber" with your category field permaname)

tiki-tracker-insert_item?trackerId=2&next=tiki-tracker-insert_item%3FtrackerId%3D3&field~childrenIdNumber=17

To set a link that will create a new item and force-insert and hide a value for a field

Here we use it to create an item with a specific category Id.
(replace "childrenIdNumber" with your category field permaname)

tiki-tracker-insert_item?trackerId=2&next=tiki-tracker-insert_item%3FtrackerId%3D3&forced~childrenIdNumber=17

To set a link that will open the update modal for an existing item and insert a value for a field

Here we use it to create an item with a specific category Id.
(replace "permaname" with your category field permaname)

tiki-tracker-update_item?trackerId=2&itemId=178&fields~childrenIdNumber=17

Aliases

• service URL
• URL arguments