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Mobile Deeplinks

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Deeplinks

The "deep linking" in mobile apps is a technique for creating direct links to specific locations within an app. At Daxium, this feature was first used to describe actions behind app personalization widgets on iOS and Android.

It then became widespread for navigation in the Android v2 application and for communication with other mobile applications.


Such a deep link is a URI, (like a URL on the web) that begins withdaxium-air://mobile applications.

Principles

Cross-app redirects

When an application calls a deep link, it goes into the background while the Daxium-Air application comes to the foreground. The calling application can be closed by the system at any time. Once the process in Daxium-Air is complete, the calling application can be recalled.

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Destinations

Deeplinks support multiple destinations, including home page, listing editor, listing view, sync page, and others.

Links may also open external applications or allow the user to log out of the Daxium-Air application.



Limitations

There are some limitations and possible errors. For example, if the user is not logged in to Daxium-Air or does not have access to the form specified in the link, specific errors are displayed. In addition, if the deeplink does not follow the correct path or if certain fields are not compliant, errors may occur.


Usage

Actions of an application personalization widget

These links can be used for the following destinations.

  • The home page - / app/home

  • The form editor /app /new_submission

  • The form view - /app /my_submission

  • Sync - /app/sync

  • The settings page - /app/ settings

  • The search page - /app/ search

  • The tasks page - /app /my_tasks

  • The webview page (which opens an external URL) - /app/webview

  • Redirection to an external application - /app/external_app

Note! When calling a deep link, if the destination is the same as the current one, nothing happens.


Create a form with parameterized values

Undoubtedly the most interesting feature in the context of calling from a third-party application.This application could thus

  • target a specific form to open

  • pre-fill specific fields with values passed as parameters

Here, the form identifier is mandatory and the values of the optional elements (fields) can be added as parameters.

Once received, they are inserted into the newly created file.


Link root path: daxium-air://editor/create/<structure_id>The structure_id parameter (corresponds to the technical id of the form) is part of the path.If it is configured it directs to the correct form, otherwise, a selector is presented to the user who will have to make their choice among all the available forms.

Example

Such a deep link is a URI, formed as  :

daxium-air://editor/create/XXX&item1=value1&item2=value2


Full example daxium-air://editor/create/137396?string=Hello, world&number=123.456&boolean=true&date=2023-08-23T13:00: 52Z&email=bob@daxium.com&phone=+33612345678< /span>



Field compatibility To date, the following fields are supported

  • Text (without rich text option)

  • Number

  • Date

  • Email

  • Telephone

  • Boolean

Each field value must conform to its expected typology and its associated format, otherwise it is not inserted.

Deep link settings takepriorityover defaults and pre-fill.

All otherfield types are ignored by this mechanism, but can be populated via the usual default values and user-defined pre-fill .


Note! This function is currently only available on the Daxium-Air Android V2 application

Error handling


Code

Message

Criticality

DAERR-DEL1001

No user is connected to the Daxium-Air application.

fatal

DAERR-DEL1002

You cannot create such data because you do not have the corresponding form.

fatal

DAERR-DEL1003

You cannot create such data because the corresponding form is disabled.

fatal

DAERR-DEL1004

You cannot create such data because the form is not top level

fatal

DAERR-DEL1005

the field named structureFieldName does not exist in the form.

warning

DAERR-DEL1006

Number field structureFieldName has an incorrect type in the form

warning

DAERR-DEL1007

the value value in the field structureFieldName cannot be interpreted as a number

warning

DAERR-DEL1008

the value value in the field structureFieldName cannot be interpreted as a boolean

warning

DAERR-DEL1009

the value value in the st fieldructureFieldName cannot be interpreted as a date

warning

DAERR-DEL1010

The given path is unknown.

fatal

DAERR-DEL1011

The value in the field cannot be interpreted as a duration.

warning

DAERR-DEL1012

The field cannot be used here.

warning


Note! As the journey through the Daxium-Air application via deep linking is limited to a single screen, it is expected that once completed, the calling application will be returned to the user..



In summary, deep linking with Daxium-Air offers an efficient method to navigate and interact with the application, but it is important to respect its limitations and properly handle errors for an optimal user experience.


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