Passing a parameter to an iView window from a Web Dynpro

Question

Hello all,
I know very little about the portal, and haven't been using Web Dynpro for too horribly long, either, so I'm really not sure what part I'm having a problem with here, so I'm just going to explain the whole scenario the best I can.
I have a Web Dynpro DC with two applications in it - SearchDevices and ShowDetail.  The idea is that there will be an iView created on the portal for each of these apps, and the user can navigate to the SearchDevices app, but the ShowDetail one will only show up by clicking on a result from the SearchDevices app.
Because the user did not want to see the portal navigation when opening up the ShowDetail, we can't use the WDPortalNavigation.navigateAbsolute(), so it was suggested to me by a coworker that I do the following:
String url = "http://localhost:50000/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/pcd!3aportal_content!2fJennifer!2fjava_fe_com_reg~search_cust_device_wdp_com_fecorp_wdp_ed_showdata_ShowData?sap-config-mode=true&application_parameter=EqNo=" + wdContext.currentResultsElement().getEqunr();
String title = "Device Details";
IWDWindow window=wdComponentAPI.getWindowManager().createNonModalExternalWindow(url,title);
window.open();
"http://localhost:50000/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/pcd!3aportal_content!2fJennifer!2fjava_fe_com_reg~search_cust_device_wdp_com_fecorp_wdp_ed_showdata_ShowData?sap-config-mode=true" is the url I see when I preview my iView in the portal (it's hard-coded now, but that will be fixed in my final production application)
"EqNo" is the parameter that my ShowDetail app is looking for... but, when I try testing this, this part is obviously not working, as it's always null, even though I can see in the URL the value being passed.
(as a side note, for me to continue testing other things until this is resolved, I HAVE done a WDPortalNavigation.navigateAbsolute() and sent the parameter that way, and it works FINE)
Any suggestions would be appreciated, I <b>will</b> reward points for anything helpful.
Thanks,
Jennifer

Answer 1

Hi ,
For the first one ,
Official Doc :
<i>This class allows the access to the origin request. If Web Dynpro is used within the SAP Portal Runtime, the Web Dynpro application developer may use Portal services. For that, the origin request object is often needed to use a lot of the existing Portal services. In the Portal case, the origin request would be a IPortalComponentRequest object.
</i>
If, he has used portal services .. please do post the steps he had done..
Second :
Might sound silly , but what you can do is .. put both of them in the same view.. lilke add interface view of the showdetail in first one itself..
hide when in search page.. .and when a user clicks on a search result.. enable that result.. and disable the other one..
this way.. u hav the same tab in TLN .. and ur passing parameters prob wud also get solved..
Regards
Bharathwaj