Websheets: create link to APEX application in same workspace

Hi all,
I'm trying some things with websheets in APEX 4.0.2 and I'm getting quite satisfied about it.
Let's assume I have this situation:
app_id 110 : database application with alias MAIN
app_id 120 : database application with alias SEC
app_id 130 : websheet application
They all use the same authentication function, which works fine.
App 110 and 120 use the same authentication cookie and there are links between these two applications. No problem at all.
Now, I want to include links to and from the websheet application.
The link to the websheet is easy: ws?p=130:HOME:&SESSION. So far so good and no log-in required.
A link from inside the websheet application to a database application is something else.
I've already found how to use markup syntax to link to another page in the same websheet
[[HOME | Home link]]and to an external website
[[http://www.oracle.com | Oracle]]But I can't find the syntax to link to a database application in the same workspace as the websheet.
I could use
[[http://<myserver>.<mydomain>/apex/f?p=MAIN:HOME | Home application]]But this is not working flexible. I want to leave out everything before f?p
If I would install these three applications on antother server, my link won't work anymore.
Also, I can't find a way to include the session id. &SESSION. isn't working. So with the above syntax, I would have to re-login in my database application.
Then I tried this
[[f?p=MAIN:HOME | Home application]]But this isn't working at all. The websheet shows me the create page wizard and fills in the name of the page: f?p=MAIN.
Can anyone help me out on this?
Am I expecting to much from websheets at the moment, is this a missing feature or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Bart

Hi,
Sorry originally I thought you were linking to websheets not from, I don't think websheets have the same capability as a database application, so i don't think apex picks up on substitution strings. Im not sure how processing with websheets work, but I think its very minimal.
Ive tried it myself, is there a reason you need the session? If I leave the session blank I can get back to the database application, I cant vouch if you're starting from your websheet but I imagine that apex will fill it in for you as its an apex url.
Cheers
Huia
Edited by: Hoppy on 05-Jan-2012 14:48

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