Aaron, Thank you. Good food for thought. I'll look into that possibility. Paul Gazda
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aaron Brown Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 8:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [uportal-dev] Getting the anchor value from a portlet action url Paul - Even so, you can probably still implement a javascript solution with a little extra effort. Presuming that your "show details" url includes a GET parameter indicating which element to show, you might name the block with an ID and use an onLoad-style javascript event pluck the GET param value from the HTTP request, then scroll the window to that spot using the same kind of window.location statement I used earlier. I admit this is starting to look a little more kludgy, but it should be workable. - Aaron On 06/15/2010 11:08 AM, Paul Gazda wrote: > Thanks, Aaron and Steve for your suggestions. Unfortunately, we don't have > javascript expanding the area right now. It is a full request-response to the > server to add the details to the list. The lists can be quite large, so > pre-populating the details and show/hiding them is not an option. Ajax would > be an option, and we will be updating the application with more javascript > and ajax in the future, but right now, the aim is to get it converted to a > portlet with as few changes as possible. The application is large, with > directory services for people, departments, groups and email aliases, so any > re-design would involve a lot of hours. I appreciate your example, Aaron, and > will keep it for reference when we start improvements; but right now, it's > looking like a kludge will be the best solution to get us out of IChannel > land. After that, we can re-design to get rid of the kludge. > > Paul Gazda > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aaron Brown > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [uportal-dev] Getting the anchor value from a portlet action url > > On 06/14/2010 05:53 PM, Paul Gazda wrote: >> Bummer. Our problem is this. We have a directory list of people in >> focused (maximized) mode, and if you click on an entry, it expands that >> entry within the list to show detail, and uses an anchor in the clicked >> url to put the clicked entry at top of page when it renders. This works >> fine in an IChannel, but I can only think of a kludge to accomplish this >> in a portlet. Is there a legitimate way for a portlet in focused mode to >> do it? > > I think the easiest solution is Steve's - a little javascript might > solve your problem. Here's a code sample: > > <ul> > > <li id="item_1" onClick="window.location='#item_1'"> One </li> > <li id="item_2" onClick="window.location='#item_2'"> Two </li> > <li id="item_3" onClick="window.location='#item_3'"> Three </li> > <li id="item_4" onClick="window.location='#item_4'"> Four </li> > <li id="item_5" onClick="window.location='#item_5'"> Five </li> > > </ul> > > If you construct your list element IDs with a bit of java/jsp/whatever, > it's easy enough to use the same element ID in the window.location > instruction. Since you already have a javascript function that expands > the region to show extra detail, you could just add the window.location > instruction to that existing code. > > - Aaron > -- Aaron Brown ([email protected] | 785-864-0462) University of Kansas Information Services System Design Enterprise System Integration Developer -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
