Linking to your Departmental FAQs

To link to your deparmental FAQs append the following to the University FAQ URL (http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/faqs/result.php):

?category=department name (as it appears in the tree control)

For example, to restrict the results to the Web department and to use the departmental template (if defined), use the following link:

http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/faqs/result.php?category=Web

The results are displayed in the departmental template if such a template is defined and enabled. The tree control starts at the topic level and all topics are displayed.

Please note that departmental FAQs that are marked as private (and therefore not served in the University-wide FAQ search page) are accessed by using the category parameter. When the category parameter is passed, which is true for all of the following options, no distinction exists between public or private departmental FAQs.

Invalid parameters

When you pass invalid parameters, no results are returned in the search page. The tree control will show no items and searches will yield no result. Please inspect the href attribute of the link you used to trigger the search.

Parameters are case insensitive, but it is recommended that you type the parameter exactly as the name, topic, or subtopic label was defined in the administrative system.