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Hello,
I have a custom Portal Application that displays UCM-content using a Content Presenter Template.
What type of approach should I use to create a keyword search page that will display links to the Content Presenter Template?
Thank you!
Mitch

Answer 1

Alright, finished MovieLibrary V2 :)
http://www.yonaweb.be/MovieLibrary_v2.zip
This project is the same as the first MovieLibrary but i added a search page.
Like you suggested, i used UCM for the data control of a table. I also bound an inputText to the keyword parameter of the search. This however is not working properly... I will look into this a bit further and see if i can make this to work.
The result table shows the result. The last column contains a link which will link to the item.jspx page. item.jspx Contains the content presenter.
First of all, i had to add an additional attribute to the data control because i needed the dDocName to pass it to my presenter. dDocName is not included in the DC by default so you need to add it. Just right click the UCM DC and press edit definition. Add an additional attribute so it points to the dDocName. I already done that in the project so when you edit the definition of the UCM DC, you will see the docname attribute added to the list.
This is the goLink in the search.jspx that will provide the link to the item.jspx:
<af:goLink destination="/faces/oracle/webcenter/portalapp/pages/item.jspx?dID=#{row.docname}" text="#{row.ID}"/>As you can see i just add the docname attribute to the URL so we can retreive this later.
Because we are passing the dDocName to the URL, we need to use a managed bean to retreive it and pass it to the content presenter workflow.
When you look at the parameters of the content presenter taskflow in item.jspx you will notice that the datasource is set to the managed bean itemBean.
In itemBean I have following code to return the correct value:
public String getDataSource(){
      FacesContext ctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
      String did = (String)ctx.getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap().get("dID");
      System.out.println("dID: " + did);
      return "UCM#dDocName:" + did;
    }The format of the datasource field in the content presenter taskflow is
<connectionName>#<filter>:<value>
so in my case i use the connection with the name UCM and i want the content with the dDocName provided in the URL.
This will result in something like
UCM#dDocName:myName
This is also the value you will see in the table with the link.
I hope my explenation is a bit clear :)
If not, just ask.
Edited by: Yannick Ongena on Apr 14, 2011 10:19 AM