Calling portal framework page from non portal page

Question

Hi,
We are having some difficulty in passing control from the non portal pages to
the Portal Pages.
To explain you more elaborately, I am writing down the scenario:
Both our portal and non portal pages reside under the same web application folder.
We have a Portal Page containing one portlet.Clicking on one of the hyperlink
on this portlet page takes us out of the portal environment where we are doing
some processing.
(Why we are going out of the portal environment is because we want to call the
existing pages as it is and our intention is not to make the existing pages portal
enabled to start with).
Somewhere down the journey on the non portal page, there is a requirement to call
the Portal Framework page.
We can call the portal Framework page from the non portal page by hard coding
the URL of the Portal page by writing something like this in href:
http://localhost:7501/application?origin=content.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.portlet.event&pageid=home&portletid=bachome_carsearchlink&wfevent=link.next
But this is not what we want. We want to call the portal page without hard coding
the URL.
If we use portlet tag in non portal page to call the Portal Framework page ( <a
href="<portlet:createWebflowURL event="link.next"/>">Next Page</a>), it throws
us error "Could not find current Portlet State" which is quite understandable,
because portlet state is now lost.
Is there any way we can achieve this .
Any suggestions or ideas?
Thanks
Ajay

Answer 1

Hi
i think you should use portal:createPortalPageChangeURL (you are effectively changing
your portal page) .
if you want to invoke a specific event in your portlet webflow you can either
write a RefreshControllerIP or use WebflowJSPHelper.createWebflowURL.
bear in mind if you have urls that directly go to an intermediate event in the
portlets webflow you may need
http://dev2dev.bea.com/codelibrary/code/portlet_pp.jsp
regards
deepak
"Ajay" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi,
We are having some difficulty in passing control from the non portal
pages to
the Portal Pages.
To explain you more elaborately, I am writing down the scenario:
Both our portal and non portal pages reside under the same web application
folder.
We have a Portal Page containing one portlet.Clicking on one of the
hyperlink
on this portlet page takes us out of the portal environment where we
are doing
some processing.
(Why we are going out of the portal environment is because we want to
call the
existing pages as it is and our intention is not to make the existing
pages portal
enabled to start with).
Somewhere down the journey on the non portal page, there is a requirement
to call
the Portal Framework page.
We can call the portal Framework page from the non portal page by hard
coding
the URL of the Portal page by writing something like this in href:
http://localhost:7501/application?origin=content.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.portlet.event&pageid=home&portletid=bachome_carsearchlink&wfevent=link.next
But this is not what we want. We want to call the portal page without
hard coding
the URL.
If we use portlet tag in non portal page to call the Portal Framework
page ( <a
href="<portlet:createWebflowURL event="link.next"/>">Next Page</a>),
it throws
us error "Could not find current Portlet State" which is quite understandable,
because portlet state is now lost.
Is there any way we can achieve this .
Any suggestions or ideas?
Thanks
Ajay