Create a quick link
You can create quick links using the quick links module in the Employee Center for accessing internal and external resources, such as knowledge bases, catalog items, pages, and links.
Before you begin
Role required: sp_admin, taxonomy_manager, or taxonomy_admin
About this task
You can associate quick links to topics in a taxonomy or to the Employee Center and Employee Center Pro home pages. For more information, see EC Information architecture.
Procedure
Navigate to All > Employee Center > Quick Links.
Click New.
On the form, fill in the fields.
For more information about the form fields and descriptions, see Quick Link form.
Click Save or Submit.
Note: Remember, you can't add a quick link as a featured item.
What to do next
If you click Save, the Assigned Topics and Available Fortabs appear.
- Assign topics to the quick links. For more information on assigning topics to a quick link, see Assign topics to a quick link.
- Restrict access to quick links. For more information on restricting access to a quick link, see Restrict access to a quick link.
Users with the sp_admin role can add quick links to a home page using the quick links widget instance options. For more information, see Modify the Quick links widget display.
Note: The background image for quick link is now visible to external users.
- Assign topics to a quick link
After you create a quick link, you can assign topics to the quick link. The quick link content is then displayed in the assigned topic in the Employee Center and Employee Center Pro. - Restrict access to a quick link
Restrict access to quick links by setting the user criteria, which allows access only to specific users, groups, roles, and more.
Parent Topic:Quick links
Related topics
Modify the Quick links widget display