How to create a link to a page in Portal

Question

I have a portal application that has a page with multiple
portlets in it. On one of the reports i want a link that will
rerun the same page but with the value you clicked on returned
through the parameter list to be used with a bind variable for
that report. What is the proper way to do this?

Answer 1

Max, yes it should be possible. What you would need to do is
set up your query like this:
select
column,
link_to_function,
more_columns
from table
where
column = get_value_from_session
what link_to_function would do is create an HTML link to a
function (we'll call it save_value_to_session). That function
will save the parameter you want to the the global session, and
then do a refresh of the page you are on. When the page
refreshes, get_value_from_session will pull the right value from
the session and base the query off of that.
I just put another post up about how to link forms and reports
on the same page. The sql code you would use would be very
similar to some of that. let me know if you have any questions