Overriding or Adding CSS on a remote portlet

Question

Hi all,
I have a producer portlet on Jboss and a remote consumer portlet on Weblogic Portal 10.2. I want to override or add the CSS on the consumer side to that portlet . I tried by giving the same path of the CSS file in both consumer and producer.
Please tell me if there is any way to do that.
Thanks
V.K. Singla

Answer 1

In G6, we have provided a way for a remote portlet to grab the parameters from the URL. If you go to the user info page for the web service, you will see a new option: "Host Page URL Query String". If you check that box, the remote tier will get the full query string, as typed into the browser, as a user info parameter. You can then parse that query string and get any additional arguments that you have passed in.
We realize that this will not work in 5.x, which most of you use. Below you will find the code that you can put into your 5.0 portaluiinfrastructure.jar/dll to make the same change as what we did with G6. That way, if you write your portlets to this feature now, when you upgrade to G6 they will continue working and you shouldn't have to do any modifications to the portal UI.
Locate AppDataObject file, which should be in portaluiinfrastructure.statichelpers package. Find this function:
public static IPTState GetAppDataObject(int iCommunityID, int iPageID, int iGWParams, String strHostPageURI, AActivitySpace asOwner, boolean bResolveSecureBase)
It should be a pretty long function that adds all sorts of stuff to objAppDataObject. At the very end of this function, immediately before the log.Debug statements, add the following line of code:
//set the query string on UserInfoptSession.GetUserInfo().AddUserInfoSetting("HostPageQueryString", asOwner.GetCurrentHTTPRequest().GetQueryString());
Build and deploy a new portaluiinfrastructure.jar/dll according to instructions published on the dev center.
Start the portal, open the web service object corresponding to the portlet which should have access to query string parameters from the URL. On the User Info page, add user info setting name "HostPageQueryString". In your portlet, get the user info setting with that name - you will have the query string as entered in the browser.
Feel free to post in this thread if you encounter any difficulties with this approach.