UPDATE: Pass Parameter from Form to Form While on Seperate Pages

Question

I'm running 9iASR2 on Linux
My issues is that In need to Take a Parameter entered on Form1 one a page then upon click of insert I need to pass a parameter entered into that form and naviagate to another page containing 2 portlets 1 being another form and 1 being a dynamic page both of the portlets on the second page need to beable to access the parameter.
Since my last post I updated the PL/SQL code to better fit the situation and now have a different problem.
Ok.. So I'm still attempting to do the same thing a about. Here what I tried and the outcome.
1. I put following code in the succeful submission pl/sql procedure of the first form(the calling form).
What a suspected the follow code to do was navigate to the page containing my other from in a portlet. Which it did. Cool!
declare
url varchar2(220);
v_FLOWNAME varchar2(220);
begin
v_FLOWNAME := p_session.get_value_as_VARCHAR2(
p_block_name => 'DEFAULT',
p_attribute_name => 'A_FLOWNAME');
url:='http://ebalpha3.us.oracle.com:7778/portal/page?_pageid=36,31629&_dad=flowmanager&_schema=PORTALSCHEMA&a.FLOWNAME='||v_FLOWNAME;
call(url);
end;
2. It passed the follow URL http://ebalpha3.us.oracle.com:7778/portal/page?_pageid=36,31629&_dad=flowmanager&_schema=PORTALSCHEMA&a.FLOWNAME=MyFLow
3. In the accepting form I input the following code in the before displaying the page section of the the form.
declare
FLOWNAME varchar2(200);
begin
FLOWNAME := portalschema.wwpro_api_parameters.get_value('FLOWNAME','a');
p_session.set_value(
p_block_name => 'DEFAULT',
p_attribute_name => 'A_FLOWNAME',
p_value => FLOWNAME);
end;
What I expected it to do is take the a.FLOWNAME from the url and input it into the FLOWNAME variable, but the FLOWNAME variable came across as blank and the FLOWNAME text area came accross as blank because the FLOWNAME parameter was never pulled.
What do you think?
Thanks for you help!

Answer 1

I have a similar problem where I have a portlet X which accepts parameters using the <passAllUrlParams>true</passAllUrlParams> tag in the provider.xml and it works if portlet X is directly on page A. However, because I need to wrap portal security around this portlet declaratively, I will need to apply security on this page A and then publish page A as a page portlet Z, then drop page portlet Z on another page, page B. (I hope you all been through this before to apply security around a portlet). By doing this - the parameters are no longer being passed into portlet X anymore.
To get around this - I will need to define page parameters for page A and map them to portlet X via the "Parameters" tab in edit mode and then define the same set of page parameters on page B and map them to the page portlet Z just to get the parameter passing working and flowing through to portlet X.
Is there anyway around this?
Do we always need to define page portlets in 10.1.4?
What does the <passAllUrlParams>true</passAllUrlParams> tag do in 10.1.4?
In 10.1.2 - the <passAllUrlParams>true</passAllUrlParams> tag was all you need to pass any number and type of parameters from a page B->page-portlet Z->portlet X
This feature seems to be missing in 10.1.4.
Please respond.
Thanks
Stanley