Deployment of portal Application

Question

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Hi Kirit
Let me introduce myself to you. I am venu working for AT&T broadband in Java applications. I am recently asked to
build an application using Oracle 9i Portal. The application scenario will be like this.
1. A login form is to be created with username and password.Upon succesful login it should lead to a search form
that requires some inputs from users.(in OnSuccess method of the form we have used
call("http://opalws2.tci.com/pls/portal30/PORTAL30.wwa_app_module.show?p_sessionid=602"). We don't know what this
p_sessionid and it is being incremented everytime we access the application. This works fine for my one login session.
If I logout and login again and try to access the above it gives an error saying that ERROR_ORA-01403 Nodata Found.
After this I have to invoke the search form and then note the session id and then change the code in the Login form
with new session id and run it again, then it works fine).
2. The search form is built on a procedure and in that procedure we are calling a report( based on SQL query) by .
passing the search criteria as parameters. Upon submission a report is generated.(This portion is working fine.I
don't know if there are any hick ups in this matter.)
3. The Report has some oracle portal links on some of the columns which lead to the forms created on corresponding
database tables. This form will be used by the end user for any modifications.( Though the session ID of this
form is changing everytime it is internally picked up and I am not facing any porblem in displaying it.)
So the issues of my concern are
1. How can I make this application available to all the end users so that nobody is bothered about this p_sessionid.
It should be as such any authorized portal user(Our company's end user) should be able to access this application like
accessing any other web site.
2. How to deploy this on our servers where our company website and the database resides.
3. I want to print the screen details of the last form using a Print button. How I can put a print button there
and how can I print the screen details.
Sorry to bother you.
Kindly help me in this matter.
Thanks
venu

Answer 1

Venu,
1.& 2. These questions have been covered in Portal FAQ:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/iportal/htdocs/portal_faq.htm
Topics:
"How do I call a form in insert mode and pass it default values?"
and
"How do I call a form and pass it a query condition to be automatically executed?"
and many, many posts in this forum, please search through the archive.
3. Look at these posts:
http://technet.oracle.com:89/ubb/Forum81/HTML/000214.html
http://technet.oracle.com:89/ubb/Forum81/HTML/000646.html
Thanks,
Dmitry