SOLVED: Unable to set Destination URI to URL stored in a VO attribute

Question

Hi OAF Gurus,
I want to set destination URI for a message styled text bean in my custom OAF page, such that on clicking the link a popup window comes up with an external url. This external url is record specific and is stored in a db table. I have access to this url thru a VO attribute on my page.
If I set destination URI declaratively using a static url, it works fine for me. However when I try to pick up the destination url from VO attribute, fwk is prefixing "http://server:port/" to the url and consequently making it an invalid url.
Please suggest a way to stop fwk from prefixing "http://server:port/" to the url stored in my VO attribute.
What works:
Destination URI:
javascript:var a = window.open('http://www.google.com/', 'a','height=500,width=900,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no'); a.focus();
What doesn't work:
Destination URI:
javascript:var a = window.open('{@BpelInstanceUrl}', 'a','height=500,width=900,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no'); a.focus();
VO attribute BpelInstanceUrl has value "http://www.google.com/".
When I specify the above destination uri using VO attribute 'BpelInstanceUrl', I get the following url on the link:
javascript:var a = window.open('http%u003a//www.google.com/', 'a','height=500,width=900,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no'); a.focus();
I searched the forum, but couldn't find any discussion on setting destination uri to an external url based on the value of a VO attribute.
Thanks for the help. Waiting for your valuable inputs.

Answer 1

Shiv,
I don't think your suggestion will work, because jsp redirect which framework will use internally will take default port number if fully qualified url(like http://www.google.com/') is not used.So, Ritesh will have the same problem as he mentioned.
Now, Ritesh coming back to your problem, the solution is to attach the fully qualified url in the table component at runtime. This will help you in two forms:
1)There will be no MAC key validation for your javascript generated url.
2)Your fully qauilified url will be attached to url property at runtime, so would not face the current problem.
Hence you need to use bound values api. Here is the sample code:
OATableBean tableBean =
(OATableBean)webBean.findChildRecursive("<table item id>");
OAMessageStyledTextBean m= (OAMessageStyledTextBean)tableBean.findChildRecursive("<message styled text in table item id>");
OADataBoundValueViewObject tip1 = new OADataBoundValueViewObject(m, "<vo attr name which stores url for each row>");
m.setAttributeValue(oracle.cabo.ui.UIConstants.DESTINATION_ATTR, tip1);
I hope i am clear.
--Mukul