How do Old-Style SmartUtilities work?

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The hyperlink taking users to the SmartUtility refers to the site creator, other information that is contained within the SmartUtility and to a unique code that the Nematrian website uses to identify the SmartUtility.

For example, suppose you were called John Smith and you wanted to set up a SmartList that targeted two SmartLinks that you had previously set up, one to a particular page on the website of the US Federal Reserve Bank and one to a particular page on the website of the European Central Bank.

The SmartLists’s own hyperlink would point to a webpage along the lines of “http://www.nematrian.com/SmartList.aspx/?c=xxxx&a=supplied+by+John+Smith”, where xxxx is a unique ID that the Nematrian website uses to identify the SmartList. Any additional text that appears when your mouse cursor hovers over the hyperlink is structured similarly.

When you clicked on this hyperlink you would then be taken to a page that contained the hyperlinks to the two target SmartLinks. Each of these would point to a webpage along the lines of “http://www.nematrian.com/SmartLink.aspx/?c=yyyy&a=supplied+by+John+Smith”, where yyyy now refers the relevant SmartLink.

The Nematrian website uses the codes to look up the information you have saved regarding the SmartList and its constituent SmartLinks, and returns you a page that contains the desired information.

Slightly more complicated is to arrange for the hyperlink forming the SmartList to copy and paste from the Nematrian website into common computer environments such as Microsoft word (and then to behave as desired when these are converted into, say, pdf form). In some cases, this has not proved practical. This is one reason why, for example, the query string used by a Nematrian SmartLink includes reference to the web address being targeted by the SmartLink.

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