Show-stopper How can I determine tab hierachy from ids in wwpob_page$

Question

I have application components published as portlets that depending on the particular page/tab combination perform various functions.
I am able to get the page_url from my report components published as portlets through p_page_url.
The URL obviously keeps track of which particular tab was last active
page?_pageid=54,93,62,68,86,98
I know the table wwpob_page$ contains these id values.
I need to be able to determine how the tab hierachy is determined.
Such that how one can determine which tabs can exist under a parent tab and so on based on the id.
10 20 30 40 50
55 58 44 48 64 68
99 105 111 72 76
I know I could "hard-code" id values to determine which particular tab I am currently on.
I want to be able to use tab "friendly" names.
select p.id, p.name, s.text
from wwpob_page$ p, wwlns_strings$ s
where p.title_id = s.id
order by p.id asc
My code needs to be robust enough so that if new tabs are added, I can still decipher the URL!!!
Can someone also tell me how the URL is built and what determines the order of tab_ids?
This is urgent and a show-stopper!
kind regards,
Matt.

Answer 1

It's my fault, I lost you there.
See I wrote the steps as they were in  "Adobe Help" so please forget about the last comment.
I chose the "advanced mode" because I have more than one menu to filter (shape and color) 
lets say I want the comments on my website to be displayed conditionaly, and I have two lists one for colors (blue and pink) and other for shapes (square and circle), 
So I'm going to have four pages each page has its own recordset, let's say now I want to filter the recordset for (Blue Circle) page 
I don't know how to do it but by following the steps in Dreamweaver help: 
-Select name, and click the Select button. 
-Select content, and click the Select button. 
-Select shape, and click the Where button. 
-Select section, and click the Where button. 
-Select time, and click the Order By button. 
this is how the SQL statement look likes:
SELECT mytable.name, mytable.contents
FROM mytable
WHERE mytable.shape='circle' AND mytable.`section`='blue'
ORDER BY mytable.hdw_serverTime 
then to Define the variables 'circle' and 'blue' :
by clicking the Plus (+) button in the Variables area and entering the following values in the Name, Default Value, and Run-Time Value columns:
circle,square,Request("circle")
blue,blue,Request("blue") 
Also I understand that I have to define a parameter but which (URL or Form) and how?  I don't know