Community Link within Content Canvas

Question

Can anyone provide a clear case of how to embed a specific community link into a content canvas using the standard plumtree UI?
Ray W

Answer 1

There might be an easier way, but here is what I would do:
Get the URL to the community form the portal:
Example: http://portal.plumtree.com/portal/server.pt?space=CommunityPage&cached=true&parentname=CommunityPage&parentid=1&userid=xxx&control=SetCommunity&CommunityID=1935&PageID=0
you can hard code the community ID, page ID, partentID or you can use the EDK to look them up dynamically.
In case you want to build it dynamically, here are the arguments you need to get:
parentid 'in case this is a sub communtiy, you need to get it's parent.
userid 'The objectID of the portal user
CommunityID 'The community ID
PageID=0 'The page index of the community pages you want to redirect to
you can simply add an HREF link in the portlte. here is an example:
'Get the portlet request and response:
Dim PortletContext As IPortletContext
PortletContext = CreatePortletContext(Request, Response)
Dim PortletRequest As IPortletRequest
PortletRequest = PortletContext.GetRequest
'If you need to look up the interactive UserID, do
Dim portletuser As IPortletUser
portletuser = PortletContext.GetUser
Dim UserID = portletuser.GetUserID()
'if you want to hardcode the link and just
Response.Write("<A href=" & "http://portal.plumtree.com/portal/server.pt?space=CommunityPage&cached=true&parentname=CommunityPage&parentid=1&userid=" & UserID & "&control=SetCommunity&CommunityID=525&PageID=0" & ">Introduction</A>")
' you might want to use the PRC to check if the interactvie user has access to the community you want to displya (maybe hide links from users that don't have access)
Here are the rights:
Plumtree.Remote.Portlet Namespace to get CommunityAccessLevel Members and display/hide link based on their access rights:
Admin: Admin means that the user has full administrative rights to the Community.
Edit: Edit means that the user has the ability to edit content in the Community (add Portlets, delete Portlets, change layout, etc.).
None: None means that the user does not have access to the Community.
Read: Read means that the user can see the Community in the list of Communities, but cannot choose to join the Community.
Select: Select means that the user can join the Community.
After you do all that register the portlet and add it as a content canvas to you community page.
hope this helps.