Get a community link / url from a communityID

Question

I am building a custom navigation and I am trying to create a link to a community. If I have the community id is there anyway to get the corresponding link to the community from an api call or query the community to get the full URL?

Answer 1

Yes. However, there are at least four different ways of doing it. It all depends on what suits your needs.
The simplest way would be to emit it using pt:openerLink tag with ClassID=512 and Mode=2 (see PT Enterprise Web Development Guide for more info).
Another way would be to use the OpenerAS:
usingcom.plumtree.server; //plumtreeserver.dllusingcom.plumtree.portaluiinfrastructure.classtypedescriptors.classframework; //portaluiinfrastructure.dllusingcom.plumtree.uiinfrastructure.statichelpers; //uiinfrastructure.dllusingcom.plumtree.xpshared.htmlelements; //uiinfrastrucutre.dll
IPTSessionptSessionptSession=(IPTSession) parentActivitySpace.GetUserSession();stringbaseUrl=ConfigHelper.GetApplicationBaseURL(this.parentActivitySpace);stringhref=OpenerAS.GetOpenObjectFullURLAsString( PT_CLASSIDS.PT_COMMUNITY_ID, communityId, IPTOpenerConstants.OPENER_MODE_VIEW, baseUrl, ptSession.GetSessionInfo().GetCurrentUserID());HTMLAnchorlink=newHTMLAnchor(baseUrl+href); //concat because href comes as partial url
You could also use ASCompoundList, add a single entry and then use it to get the URL:
ASCompoundListcpList=newASCompoundList();cpList.AddCommPageURL(pageName, communityId, pageID, "", -1);CListURLMediatormediator=newCListURLMediator(parentActivitySpace, cpList);HTMLAnchormyLink=((HTMLAnchor) mediator.GetEntryAtIndex(0));
Or you could use the ASURL to do the same.
Ruslan.