Re: Cocoon portal tabs

Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:18:31 -0800 

Hi Anna,

I guess I was asking what is the underlying mechanism you use that switches tabs. I have no experience at all with "Portal Page Labels", if that's what you got. Anyhow, I hope that the hack that I will suggest will be suitable for any tab-switching algorithm.

In the main portal sitemap (the one that contains configuration for the portal), there is "auth" pipeline. If a user is successfully authenticated this pipeline does a redirect depending on the value of request parameter "resource".

<map:redirect-to uri="{request-param:resource}"/>

By default, this "resource" parameter is hard coded to be "portal" in login-html.xsl (part of the skin - responsible for rendering the login coplet).

In case pattern like "portal?id=tab2" works for you, all you have to do is to add that id parameter to the redirection URL, so that it will look like this:

<map:redirect-to uri="{request-param:resource}?id=tab2"/>

In case you have access to the authentication pipelines, you can store the tab value in the authentication context (read more about it here:
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/developing/webapps/authentication.html ).

So, if you have the following authentication info for a user:

<authentication>
    <ID>Unique ID of the user in the system</ID>
    <role>rolename</role> <!-- optional -->
    <tabValue>tab2</tabValue>
    <data>
        Any additional optional information can be supplied here.
        This will be stored in the session for later retrieval
    </data>
</authentication>

Then the redirect could look like:

<map:redirect-to uri="{request-param:resource}?id={tabValue}"/>

I hope that this will work for you, but I haven't tried it (so the advice will be purely theoretical).

Sincerely,
Nick.

PS. Here is the auth pipeline:

      <!-- Authenticate a user -->
      <map:match pattern="auth">
        <!-- Check if we are logged in:
        - if we are anonymous, then logout
        - if we are any other use, redirect to loggedin
        -->
        <map:act type="auth-loggedIn">
          <map:parameter name="handler" value="portal-handler"/>

          <map:act type="auth-protect">
            <map:parameter name="handler" value="portal-handler"/>
            <map:parameter name="application" value="portal"/>

        ....
        ....
        ....

<!-- Start the authentication process -->
<map:act type="auth-login">
<map:parameter name="handler" value="portal-handler"/>
<map:parameter name="application" value="portal"/>
<map:parameter name="parameter_name" value="{request-param:name}"/>
<map:parameter name="parameter_password" value="{request-param:password}"/>

          <!-- Authentication succeeded -->
          <map:act type="portal-login">
            <map:parameter name="portal-name" value="portal"/>
          </map:act>

          <map:redirect-to uri="{request-param:resource}"/>
        </map:act>

Anna Bikkina wrote:
What I really want is to display all tabs for all users but depending on
which user is logged in I want to have the right tab selected first. I
want the order of the tabs also to remain same. Just the right tab has
to be selected. 

When I was doing href="portal?id=tab2" it is going to tab2 but to do
that I should be in the portal page. I want tab2 to be selected for the
users as he gets to the portal page.

Thank your replying back.

Anna.



On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 17:32, Nick Goupinets wrote:

Hi Anna,

I am not exactly sure which features you are talking about. I have never seen switching portal tabs just based on the "id" request parameter.

Can you provide more information?

BTW, if you want to display different pages for different users, you can use very fine grained profiling system. Just modify the pipelines that fetch layout information.

Sincerely,
Nick.

Anna Bikkina wrote:

Can someone please help me get this working?

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 13:13, Anna Bikkina wrote:


Hi,

I am using cocoon portal features. In my portal page I have tabs. When I
choose "portal" it goes to the first tab in my application. I want the
application to go to different tabs depending on which user is logged
in. so when I redirect to portal after I login . I tried
        <map:rediect-to uri="portal?id=tab2"/>

but that didnt work. When I use hyperlinks that say <a
href="portal?id=tab2" it goes to the respective tab. Not sure why
redirect-to is not working..

Can someone please help me how to solve this problem.

Thanks,
Anna.


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