As an example the following would render the bookmarks portlet in maximized mode in MyUW (based on 2.5.1)
https://my.wisc.edu/portal/tag.idempotent.render.userLayoutRootNode.uP?uP_fname=my-bookmarks
-Eric Timothy Carroll wrote:
maybe its not. can you tell me what an fname link is? Eric Dalquist wrote:Tim, How is that different than fname links? -Eric Timothy Carroll wrote:Drew,I recently wrote a proof-of-concept dlm processor that will link someone directly to a maximized version of a portlet. At the time, I was thinking... it would be easy to do something similar to navigate folks directly to a tab, or if you had anchors above each portlet, you could navigate them there as well.We are in the middle of a significant roll-out project right now, but I would be happy to discuss this with you as time allows.Tim Drew Wills wrote:Hey folks,I've been asked by JHU to implement a "deep-linking" feature for their portal: essentially, they want to be able to link directly to a specific tab from another web application.I have the sense that a lot of folks would be interested in this feature. I know I've been asked about it several times. University of Colorado System, for one, would like it very much.I also learned that Pearson Education needs this feature -- in fact, they implemented it. It's currently used in their production portal that services large numbers of users.What's more, I learned from a coworker at UNICON that Pearson had already agreed to contribute this feature -- they were only waiting on available bandwidth to get it done.Rather than recreate this feature from scratch, I volunteered to be the one to get it in. I've created a JIRA, with a patch attached:- http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UP-1936I've applied this patch to a local copy of rel-2-6-patches and verified that it functions as expected.When I first considered the issue I was worried that this enhancement would be pretty invasive; it's actually very low-impact, as it turns out.Here are all the files (5 total) affected by the patch: -properties\db\data.xml-webpages\stylesheets\org\jasig\portal\channels\DLMUserPreferences\tab-column\default.properties -webpages\stylesheets\org\jasig\portal\channels\DLMUserPreferences\tab-column\default.xsl -webpages\stylesheets\org\jasig\portal\layout\DLM-tab-column\tab-column.xsl -source\org\jasig\portal\channels\DLMUserPreferences\TabColumnPrefsState.javaIn a nutshell, you enhance the DLMUserPreferences channel to support CRUD operations on a specific folder attribute (stored ultimately in UP_SS_USER_ATTS): "externalId"Then, you enhance the DLM structure transformation to consume it where appropriate (takes like 3 lines of XSL).Lastly, you have to register the name "externalId" as a valid folder attribute. This is the change to data.xml: it's one additional row in the DB.URLs that target specific tabs would look like this:-http[s]://my-portal/render.userLayoutRootNode.uP?uP_sparam=activeTab&activeTab={externalId}I think this is a compelling feature, and I'd very much like to get it into the product.Thoughts? Anyone else interested in this enhancement? drew willsPS: JHU also has a great idea for writing a ServletFilter that could map to URLs like this one:- http[s]://my-portal/{externalId}and translate them to the format shown above. I'm sure they'll be happy to contribute that as well.
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