Smart Link defined
By default, a SmartLink is a client side script which shows or hides a link based on its status. If content is "available" the link would be displayed on website, if not available, it will be hidden.

Do I have to use Smart Links?
Yes, the smart link verifies the availability of the brochure, and delivers content with your settings. There are other ways this can be done on the client side as well as on the server side (below).

How else I can implement SmartLink?
First do a GET on verification link:

http://www.iceportal.com/ice/WTVPortal/Pages/
BrochureView/BrochureAvailable.aspx?did=XXX&
brochureid=YYY -- where XXX is your "did" "distributor ID" and YYY is the "brochureid" or PID (property ID) of the brochure you want.

If brochure is available you'll get a gif image (1x1 pixel). In this case you can show the link to the brochure as you have verified its availability.

If brochure is not available. the a link to brochure will not work, and is hidden.

Linking multiple brochures on one web page? Can I copy and paste the client script & copy it over & over only modifying brochure IDs ?

Yes. Make sure you change brochure IDs, not only in the brochure URLs but also for the name of the images loaded to verify brochure availability. If you keep image name the same it will not work correctly - the links in the list will be checking availability against this image instead of checking availability against its own image.

To implement SmartLinks on server side:
There are many server side technologies so we are not able to list solutions for all of them here.

The general concept is:
1) Make a server to server call with GET on
    brochure verification URL with correct     Distributor and Brochure ID
2) If you get a valid response from the call (gif
    image of size 1 pixel) write out HTML with the     link of the brochure you just verified.
3) If you don’t get a valid response – do not write     out HTML to show the link of this brochure as it     will not be functional.

Why should I only look for valid response from verification link?
Always check for valid response because it is only the time when you are guaranteed that this is when the brochure link is going to be functional. There may be a number of invalid responses and if you only check for one you may show a link to brochure when it is not available.

Other ways to verify brochure status
You can use XML interfaces see ICE WebService.

Need more Help?
If you do not feel comfortable implementing smart links on your Website an engineer from ICE Portal can do this for you for an additional fee. Please contact support@iceportal.com for more details.