Calling Portal page by name

In 9iAS Release 1, we can call a specific portal page using the following URL:
/pls/portal30/url/PAGE/page_name
Is there any similar url to call pages in Release 2?

Malin,
I have tried that earlier. It was not working.
I just tried with giving page group name as well. Now it's working.
/pls/portal/url/PAGE/<page_group_name>/<page_name>
Thanks,
Chandra.

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1. wwpro_api_parameters cannot be used to get default portal
page parameters such as '_pageid', '_dad', '_schema' etc.,
2. Page information can be obtained through any components which
are available in that particular page. For example, in case of
dynamic page, we need to publish it as a portlet and add it to the
page. This process creates necessary packages in the DB, but we
will not have access to the portlet methods.
So, I would prefer creating a simple DB provider & portlet and access
page title from its show method as follows -
//Declare local variable l_page_id, l_page_title as varchar2
select page_id into l_page_id from wwpob_portlet_instance$ where
portlet_id = p_portlet_record.portlet_id and
provider_id = p_portlet_record.provider_id;
select name into l_page_title from wwpob_page$ where id=l_page_id;
More information on DB provider can be found at
http://portalstudio.oracle.com/pls/ops/docs/FOLDER/COMMUNITY/PDK/articles/understanding.database.providers.html
Secondly, usage of wwpro_api_parameters.get_value method is
incorrect. This method expects two arguments -
<ul>
<li><b>p_name : </b> The name of the parameter to be returned.</li>
<li><b>p_reference_path : </b> An unique identifier for a portlet instance on the current page.</li>
</ul>
p_reference_path would be something like 99_SNOOP_PORTLET_76535103 and not some type of path as its name suggests.
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Note : Copy this code into 'show' method of your portlet.
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We are having some difficulty in passing control from the non portal pages to
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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
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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?
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If the user has JavaScript DISABLED, the form works like an ordinary form - the page submits itself.
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When using the non-JavaScript method, I obviously need the form to submit, and come back with my portal page, including the portlet I submitted from (i.e. exactly as it normally does in WebLogic portals).
Whe submitting using JavaScript, I don't need the response to include any of the header/footer/pages/other portlets - I just want to return the single page referenced by the Page Flow (i.e. the page specified in the Forward action).
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Nearly there.
I can now generate a URL to the portlet, along with parameters to pass in. All that's left to do is trigger the action to make use of the parameters.
It's beginning to sound very much like a bodge job - like we're trying to do something that hasn't been catered for. I've actually managed to get something working now, using a different bodge. I want to call the current portlet, calling the action "toggleFavourite". I therefore now do this:
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Dear All
1. I have a Portal Page with One Portlet in the top having like 5 Buttons. Each button click should display a separate portlet in the bottom on this same page.
2. I have Top Portlet. For bottom I have 5 Portlets P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5. On my .portal file, I dragged and dropped top portlet and all these 5 Portlets one below each other.
3. Now, I am trying to use BackingFile approach at PageLevel/Portlet level, to get the details of button clicked in top portlet (like name etc), and then show only one portlet at a time in the bottom section (using portlet backingcontext show/hide APIs). I do need to compare the bottom portlets defintion_label etc. which is fine for now.
Is this the right approach...?
Or do I have to use Portlet Custom Event approach. So top portlet will trigger event everytime button is clicked with some payload. And bottom 5 portlets listen to that event and show/hide accordingly. But in this approach, I have to attach backingfile to all the bottom portlets to listen to them.
All the portlets are Pageflow based Portlets. Any ideas or any other simpler approaches, are highly appreciated.
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1. Thanks a lot for the pointers. I will go with Events. So for bottom Portlets, I will use the same BackingFile. But still it is going to be custom Event. Because only one portlet will be shown. So its like my payload will be portlet def label. In Backing File, I will compare this payload with actual dynamic value and if same, show or hide that portlet. Please let me know if this is correct approach.
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Hi I don't know if you are using Portal Forms or HTML Forms, but I think you can make this work for both.
In case it is for HTML Forms, here is the solution:
<oracle>
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     </tr>
<tr>
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HELP! Need help generating TEXT-ONLY portal page...

Text Only Portal Question:
PLATFORM:
=================================================================
Sun Solaris (5.2 if memory serves) for db and mid-tier, running
8.1.7 DB and 3.0.9 (1.0.2.2) portal.
THE NEED:
=================================================================
I need to display text only portal pages. Some of the more
detailed concerns at this point are below. Also, I've had an open
tar on Metalink for about two weeks, and after research from
their end has resulted in no help.
THE ISSUES (so far):
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IMAGES:
If an anchor [A HREF=...] tag uses an image as it's "text", I
need to strip out the ALT= text to show inside the anchor. If no
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as a default.
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login inputs and submit button, search box, advanced search page,
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METHOD=GET or POST
ACTION=url (relative or absolute) to the script.
In this case, the action value is:
ACTION=/servlet/page?
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This calls the advanced search API.
I would expect that to redirect the browser back to some
text-only version, the ACTION= element would have to be changed
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What happens when portal pages redirect internally? How do you
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from url to url to get to the actual login page. Our
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to [domain]/pls/portal30_sso/portal30_sso.login_page.
Since this is standard Oracle redirection, how can it be
intercepted so the portal30_sso.login_page can be presented as
text only?
TRIED SO FAR:
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I've written a socket/text scraper in Perl, running it from a web
server. The problems mentioned above are really causing problems,
plus the whole cookie thing. Since Oracle Portal tries to push a
cookie to the client, when the client is another UNIX server,
the cookie thing doesn't work.
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create some sort of PL/SQL procedure to catch the content then
strip out the HTML calls.
An Applet to do the same thing, but on the client side, but
since time is an issue, coding a complete Java applet isn't
really an option.
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funded, and to meet Section 508 (part of the Americans with
Disabilities Act that states web sites and applications must be
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