Channel self-focusing
You can focus the channel via a request parameter: uP_root=me
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Thanks to Ken Weiner for providing this information on the JASIG-PORTAL list.
External links
Motivation
You might want to have links outside your portal link into your uPortal, through login, to a channel in focus mode.
This is how Yale University delivers its Network Registration channel.
Examples
- YaleInfo daily business cartoon channel
- *YaleInfo Network Registration – you won't be able to get through CAS, but this link demonstrates using this feature with CAS.
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NOTE in order to successfully validate your service ticket, you should either use the CAS support bundled with uP 2.5.2, YaleCasFilteredContext or |
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modify the portal authentication framework to pass in the request URI to ensure that additional parameters are passed through to CAS as part of the service URL. |
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Documentation
Implementation
This is was accomplished by via a modification to LoginServlet (uPortal > 2.4) to collect the parameters :
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public void doGet (HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
if (log.isTraceEnabled()){
log.trace("entering doGet(" + request + "...)");
}
/* Grab the target functional name, if any, off the login request.
* Really we should lookup the key in a properties file.
* If this parameter is set, we will pass it along after authentication.
*/
String targetFname = request.getParameter("uP_fname");
String targetArgs = request.getParameter("uP_args");
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And then some code to put these parameters on the redirect to the uPortal session management servlet.
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and preserve them during the login process, reapplying them after the user has authenticated.