Changing Tabs

Question

We are using Tab pages. We have a .jsp portlet located on a tab
called 'Main'. The .jsp portlet needs to contain hyperlinks
that when pressed, will take the user to an 'Other' tab and
display the relevant information under the 'Other' tab. I have
noticed that Oracle is using the wpob_page.changetabs procedure
when the user presses the tab. Where do I get the neccessary
items to pass to this procedure, i.e. pageid, regionid,
mainpageid, etc. There seems to be no classes available within
the JPDK to get this information. I know that I can get the
pageid for the URL, but what about the other parameters.... I
would like to avoid hard-coding links, if at all possible
(things around here change to often).
Thanks,
Gary

Answer 1

Here's the code I used to figure out which tab. It's not based
on the tab name but the pportlet_id
It works as follows from the jsp.
PortletRenderRequest portletRequest = (PortletRenderRequest)
request.getAttribute(HttpProvider.PORTLET_RENDER_REQUEST);
String pageid = portletRequest.getParameter("_page_url");
int pfrom= newbaseurl.indexOf("_pageid=");
pageid = newbaseurl.substring(pfrom+8, newbaseurl.indexOf
("&",pfrom) );
This would get you which tab has been clicked. This is what
I've done to figure out which tab has been click from my jsp
main program that is on more than 1 page and the content changes
based on which tab is clicked.
Then I do either a
if ( pageid.indexOf("455")>-1 )
or
if ( pageid.equals("169,455"))
You'll find that hierarchical tabs do funny things though.
This is what we did, hope this helps. Good luck.