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 bot in guest mode and as an authenticated user.
- For information on how to go directly to a channel in focus mode as an authenticated user see this page: Focus a channel
- To go to a channel in focus mode and in guest mode you also need a patch to allow transient layout wrapper to be handled by the guest preferences and modifications to session manager and login processing to handle passing parameters across session boundaries. The attachment deepLinkingForGuestPatch2-5-1.txt contains this patch for the 2.5.1 RC1 code.
Hint
Links to channels in guest mode work only with a url which contains the tag element such as: http://portal.yale.edu/tag.idempotent.render.userLayoutRootNode.uP?uP_fname=yaleDirectorySearch