Getting pcd location of iview dynamically

Question

Hi,
I need the pcd loaction of a particular iview so that it can be provided as a reference to a link,since on clicking the link from a different iview that particular iview opens.Can you pls. let me know
1.How to dynamically fetch the PCD location of an iview in a DynPage.
2. I have created a seperate project for this purpose in NWDS.Do i need to modify the portalapps.xml

Answer 1

Hi Ranjan,
     Blocks might be confussing for you but let me make it simple. Definately you can make use of IPcdContext Factory to get the PCD location for a particular iview. I am attaching a simple code which will you clear you how to implement and fetch the PCD.
     public List getPCDContents(IPortalComponentRequest request) throws Exception{
          try {
          Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
          env.put(IPcdContext.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, request.getUser());
          env.put(
          Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
          IPcdContext.PCD_INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY);
          env.put(Constants.REQUESTED_ASPECT, "com.sap.portal.pcd.gl.PersistencyAspect");
          InitialContext ctx = null;
          DirContext dirCtx;
          List iViewList = null;
          ctx = new InitialContext(env);
          dirCtx = (DirContext) ctx.lookup("pcd:portal_content/");
          PcdSearchControls pcdSearchControls = new PcdSearchControls();
          pcdSearchControls.setReturningObjFlag(false);
          pcdSearchControls.setSearchScope(
          PcdSearchControls.SUBTREE_WITH_UNIT_ROOTS_SCOPE);
          dirCtx.addToEnvironment(
          Constants.APPLY_ASPECT_TO_CONTEXTS,
          Constants.APPLY_ASPECT_TO_CONTEXTS);
          NamingEnumeration ne =
          dirCtx.search(
          "(com.sap.portal.pcd.gl.ObjectClass=com.sapportals.portal.iview)",
          pcdSearchControls);
          iViewList = new ArrayList();
          int i = 0;
          while (ne.hasMoreElements()) {
          i++;
          IPcdSearchResult searchResult =
          (IPcdSearchResult) ne.nextElement();
          String location =
          "pcd:portal_content/" + searchResult.getName();
          iViewList.add(location);
          response.write("Object is "+location);
          return iViewList
          }catch(Exception e )
             response.write("Exception Occured due to :" +e.toString());
Good Luck!
Nikhil