URL of the current portal page loaded using Javascript ?

Question

Hello:
I am trying to add programmatically the url of the current
page loaded in the portal to the 'Favorites List'. There
is a pre-built KM iview to store your 'favorites'.
I can extract and write to this 'favorites' using KM java
API. But only challenge is to extract the current loaded
page URL and title using Javascript.
I would appreciate any help in this regard.
Thank you very much,
Prasad Nutalapati

Answer 1

Dude i was having the exact same problem. I solved it using the SAP-provided EPCM (javascript client framework).
Javascript Code
var pageName = "";
var URL = "";
function bookmarkPage()
     /* page url */
     var fullURL = "https://<%=request.getServerName()%>/irj/portal?NavigationTarget=" + URL;
     /* IE bookmark */
     if(EPCM.getUAType() == EPCM.MSIE)
          window.external.AddFavorite(fullURL , pageName);
     else
          var msg = "Sorry. The \"Add To Favorites\" feature only works with Internet Explorer. " +
                      "The URL to this page is " + fullURL;
          alert(msg);
/* get pagename from eventObject from subscribed event */
function getPageObject(eventObj) {
    pageName = eventObj.dataObject.title;
    URL = eventObj.dataObject.URL;
/* subscribe to event in pagetoolbar area */
EPCM.subscribeEvent("urn:com.sapportals:navigation", "AddNavTargetAllowDuplicate", getPageObject);
End of code
Basically, what this does is that everytime a page loads, the innerpage, where the content is, raises an event using  the EPCM.raiseEvent() method. EPCM.subscribeEvent subscribes to an event called AddNavTargetAllowDuplicate which has an object holding the page information (i.e. page title and URL (ROLE://...)). Everytime that it notices an event raised, the function getPageObject gets called to go get data from the event object that is available globally in the framework.
You should be able to put this code anywhere in any iview and it should work. Thou i have only tried putting it in the masthead. Try and if you still have questions please let me know.