Footer links¶

The Footer Links editor manages the links shown in the deployed APEx Geospatial Explorer's footer bar. Open it from the Settings tab by clicking Edit Footer Links under the Footer Links preview.

The dialog is a two-page modal: a sortable list of existing links, and an add/edit form for a single link.

List page¶

The list shows each configured link with its label, a type-aware icon, and controls to reorder (▲▼), edit (pencil), or delete (trash). Links appear in the deployed footer in the order shown here.

Click + Add Footer Link to open the edit form for a new link, or click the pencil icon on an existing row to edit it.

Click Done to save changes back to the config, or Cancel to discard them.

Add / edit form¶

Each link has two flavours selected via the Type dropdown:

Standard Link¶

A regular https:// URL, opened in a new tab in the deployed Explorer.

Add Footer Link dialog — Standard Link type with Footer label and URL fields

Field	Required	Notes
Footer label	Yes	Display text shown in the footer.
URL	Yes	Absolute `https://` URL.

Email (mailto)¶

An email link that opens the user's email client with optional pre-filled fields. The form fields are bidirectionally parsed from / serialised to a mailto: URL.

Add Footer Link dialog — Mailto type with Email, CC, Draft subject, and Draft body fields

Field	Required	Maps to
Footer label	Yes	Link display text.
Email	Yes	`mailto:<email>` recipient.
CC	No	`?cc=` query parameter.
Draft subject	No	`?subject=` query parameter.
Draft body	No	`?body=` query parameter (multi-line).

The composed URL looks like mailto:hello@example.com?cc=team@example.com&subject=Feedback&body=Hi%20there.

The Add / Save button is disabled until the required fields for the selected type are filled.

Schema¶

Footer links are stored under layout.footer as an ordered array of FooterLink objects (each { title, url }). Mailto links are stored as fully-formed mailto: URLs:

{
  "layout": {
    "footer": [
      { "title": "Documentation", "url": "https://docs.example.com" },
      { "title": "Contact us", "url": "mailto:hello@example.com?subject=Feedback" }
    ]
  }
}

Live preview on the Settings tab¶

Above the Edit Footer Links button, the Settings tab shows each configured link as a badge with a mail (✉) or external-link (↗) icon depending on the URL scheme. Empty configurations show "No footer links configured.".