View source for User Guide/2 My Portfolio/1 My Views/Providing a Link to a View

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       <h3>The Mahara user manual moved to http://manual.mahara.org</h3>
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To bring viewers to the View, it's necessary to tell them where and how they can access it.

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===Linking to a view===

<font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Each View has a unique hyperlink assigned to it .</font>

<font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Click on the view you want the hyperlink to and copy this – it will look something like</font>

<font color="#000080"><u>[http://myportfolio.school.nz/view/view.php?id=999 <font face="Verdana, sans-serif">http://demo.mahara.org/view/access.php?id=1950</font>]</u></font>

<font face="Verdana, sans-serif">This link can be used to in used to link from another view</font>

<font face="Verdana, sans-serif">This can be used to show a member of the public your view – providing you have made the view public.</font>

<font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="3">Click on link to view the slideshow on the </font></font><font color="#000080"><u>[http://mahara.org/ <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="3">Mahara front page</font></font>]</u></font>

'''Secret URL'''<br /> You can also create a secret web address (Url)  that you can email to people who are not mahara users that want to access your view. A secret URL is difficult to guess.<br /> Select '''My Portfolio → My Views → Edit View access → Add secret URL'''

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===Browsing to a View===

From within a given Mahara installation:

* If the View is created by an individual, it is possible to reach a View via the page of that individual.
* If the View is created within a Group, or submitted to a Group, it is possible to access the View through that Group's View tab.

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