Q: How to retrieve the current URL with PL/SQL

Question

I've got a pair of dynamic page portlets on a page. The first is simply an input text box and a submit button, the second is an inventory 'report' based on what is entered in the text box. When a value is entered and the button pressed, there is javascript behind the button that takes the current URL, adds '&ITEM=XXXXXXXX' (removing it first if this is not the first invocation of the page), and redirects to the new page.
The second portlet uses the &ITEM parm to list a bill of materials for the item. If one of the items possesses a sub-assembly, I want to display the item# in an <a href= manner to make it so the user can simply click on the link to see the BOM of the subassembly.
To do this, I believe I need to capture the current url and modify it as required to pass the new &ITEM value. I'm having a lot of trouble trying to figure out how to get the current page url. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Geoff

Answer 1

Hello
I have a similar problem I have developed a pl/sql portlet and put it into a page, this portlets display a dynamic page. This dynamic page have a search functionality, what I am trying to do is that when I click the search button on the dynamic page it recall the whole page and pass the paremeter that the user wrote on the search box, then the portlet that contains the dynamic page recieve the parameter and recall the dynamic page with the parameter that was received. The problem that I have is that the portlet receive the parameter but when I pass the parameter to the dynamic page it doesn't get it. This is the way the I am calling the dynamic page inside my portlet into the show procedure:
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE
'begin
APP_NAME.PG_DYN_DIR_ALFABETICO.show (
p_arg_names => PORTAL30.wwv_standard_util.string_to_table2(''url_page'',''search_param''),
p_arg_values => PORTAL30.wwv_standard_util.string_to_table2(:1,:2));
end;'
using url_pg,p_text1;
The dynamic page receive the first parameter(url_page) but not the second one(p_text1), I have checked that the p_text1 has a value on my portlet before I send it to the dynamic page so I really don't understand why my dynamic page doesn't work.
Please HELP ME. I am desperate
Ana Lasprilla