External Links to Channels and tabs (v2.5)
There are several ideas and requirements that have been voiced about enabling external links that come into uPortal and "land" directly on a channel in focus mode or on a tab both in guest mode and as an authenticated user.
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For information on how to go directly to a channel in focus mode as an authenticated user see this page: 05 Focus a channel
Linking directly to a channel in guest mode
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Links to channels in guest mode work only with a url which contains the tag element such as: httphttps://portal.yale.edu/tag.idempotent.render.userLayoutRootNode.uP?uP_fname=yaleDirectorySearchgeneral-search |
Servlets for deep links in guest mode
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Links can then look like:
http://server/uPortal_path/Guest?uP_fname=xxx&uP_args=yyy.
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Those contributions are currently used in channel esup-helpdesk (http://esup-helpdesk.sourceforge.net) and we would be pleased if this code was integrated into the main uPortal distribution.
External Links to Channels and tabs (v2.
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TheĀ GuestServlet.java is unchanged, but GuestUserPreferencesManager.java was modified to pass the uP_args parameter in addition to uP_fname.