Hi Mike M

Introducing a new concept of hiding menus containing forms, list or a second userview  in a parent userview.

Here are some steps to create a hyperlink to a datalist:

1. In Design Datalist
- Create new datalist 1, let's name it 'wonderlist'.
2. In Design Userview:
- Create a new category menu.
- Edit the permission of this new menu category, click on the hide checkbox.
- In this new category (hidden from view during run time), add a datalist menu, select the datalist 'wonderlist' and give this menu a custom id, example 'hiddenwonderlist'.
- Drag a "Link" menu in your standard category (which is visible to public) and add the hyperlink of your customid, i.e. 'hiddenwonderlist'. Provide a custom id name to this link menu, let's call it 'gotowonderlist'.
3. In Design Datalist
You want to provide a link in your column to datalist 'wonderlist'.
- Create a new datalist 2, add columns. Selected a column to convert into a hyperlink/drag the hyperlink menu to the rightmost box. Edit the hyperlink properties and add the url address 'gotowonderlist' (If this don't work, add the full address '/jw/web/userview/eventbooking/su/_/gotowonderlist').
- Save your datalist and add this datalist into your userview menu as you would normally do.
- If you were to run the app now, click the menu to go to datalist 2. If you click on the hyperlink in the datalist 2, it should jump to datalist 1 (wonderlist).

The Service Help Desk has example of hidden menus in userview which is called by the datalist. Clicking on the datalist record passes the id of the selected record to a form, opening that particular record

Thanks Matthew

wonderful ... I was following these steps, however, it suddenly stopped working for newly created datalists. My question is how to make it work again? with no error message, how to debug?

Best, 

Here is more detail for clarity:

The following url works: http://localhost:8080/jw/web/userview/Mtest/a/_/Datalist1

If I only duplicate Datalist1 and name it to Datalist2 or create a new datalist, http://localhost:8080/jw/web/userview/Mtest/a/_/Datalist2 browser output is the following:

Page Not Found (Code 404)

            Sorry, the page requested is not found.            
            If you have been brought to this page unintentionally, please report the previous URL for troubleshooting purposes.

Hi Mike After you create or duplicate to datalist2, do remember to update the hidden menu to point to this new datalist.