You can specify a hyper-reference with no associated view, just by providing void as the view type. Such a hyper-reference is said to be unbound, and cannot be dereferenced. For example:

To test if a hyper-reference is bound, you can use the function IlsRpObject::isEditable, passing the value IlsEditRights::HREF_SELECT as its second argument.

Let us assume a row representation object named r. The following function call returns IlsFalse:

An unbound hyper-reference is a labeled reference —that is, a reference associated with a label. It is particularly useful if you want to manipulate a reference while visualizing it through the name of the target object.