Integration in Ability

Integration is a term used to describe how different applications work together and especially how they share data.

There are three main ways Ability can share information:

  1. Copy and paste (see Copy and paste) – a simple copy of data from one application to the next.

  2. Linking through fields (see Linking through fields) – sharing data through field links. Data remains live, so that when the source is changed the linked field or fields change also. Mail Merge is the most obvious example of field level integration.

  3. Embedding and linking documents (see Object embedding) – whole documents, or a selected part of a document, can be inserted into another application. For example:

There is a special link function called Hyperlink that allows documents to refer to other documents (or web pages) and provide a clickable jump to load that document. See the hyperlink function for more details.

See also:

Fields - an introduction

Mail merge