Link from the body of a portlet to a portlet on another page

[hamptont]

I need to put links in the body of a portlet on page A that links to a different portlet on page B. I also need to be able to pass parameters to the portlet on page be telling it how to render.

Is there a way to do this ? RenderURLs adn ActionURLs only generate URLs to the current portlet.

Is there a JSP Custom Tag that would take a page name, portlet name, and a list of param/value pairs and generate a portal specific render URL ?

Maybe like this ?






would generate a link that looks like this

http://localhost/portal/index.html?ctrl:cmd=render&ctrl:window=myportal.mypage.myportlet&param1=val1&param2=val2

[theute]

There is no way to do it that follows the specification.

But in JBoss Portal, you can navigate in the tree of portal instances / pages / windows and achieve what you are looking for, look at the IPC documentation

[vietanh.vu]

Actually, there is a JSR168-compliant way to do this, with the help of javascript

at portlet ABC , I include a hidden form similar to this

<form id="portletABCForm" action="<portlet:actionURL/>" method="post" style="display:none">
</form>

Note that the form id is porletABCForm to indicate that it belongs to portlet ABC,
I also create a javascript function

function invokeActionURLPortlet(portletName) {
var frm = document.getElementById("portlet" + portletName + "Form");
if (frm) {
var frmHtml = frm.innerHTML;
for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length - 1; i+=2) {
var parameterName = arguments;
 var parameterValue = arguments[i + 1];
 frmHtml += "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"" + parameterName + "\" value=\"" + parameterValue + "\"/>";
 }
 frm.innerHTML = frmHtml;
 frm.submit();
 }
 }

Now, I can invoke the actionURL of portlet ABC by using the above function

<a href="javascript:invokeActionURLPortlet("ABC", "param1" , "value1", "param2", "value2")">Click here to invoke portlet ABC action URL with param1=value1&param2=value2</a>

The solution is also posted my blog at http://vpensieve.blogspot.com/

[vietanh.vu]

Actually, there is a JSR168-compliant way to do this, with the help of javascript

at portlet ABC , I include a hidden form similar to this

<form id="portletABCForm" action="<portlet:actionURL/>" method="post" style="display:none">
</form>

Note that the form id is porletABCForm to indicate that it belongs to portlet ABC,
I also create a javascript function

function invokeActionURLPortlet(portletName) {
var frm = document.getElementById("portlet" + portletName + "Form");
if (frm) {
var frmHtml = frm.innerHTML;
for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length - 1; i+=2) {
var parameterName = arguments;
 var parameterValue = arguments[i + 1];
 frmHtml += "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"" + parameterName + "\" value=\"" + parameterValue + "\"/>";
 }
 frm.innerHTML = frmHtml;
 frm.submit();
 }
 }

Now, I can invoke the actionURL of portlet ABC by using the above function

<a href="javascript:invokeActionURLPortlet("ABC", "param1" , "value1", "param2", "value2")">Click here to invoke portlet ABC action URL with param1=value1&param2=value2</a>

The solution is also posted my blog at http://vpensieve.blogspot.com/