Re: directtool and anchors

> There is another URL scheme (put in by me) which *does* allow tunnelling
> of Anchors through the portal URL space. Take a look at the
> "encodeToolState" method in the PortalService API. The "URLstub" argument
> is whatever URL state you require to be delivered to your tool after
> all decoding is complete. Note that this is very much a *Portal* thing
> rather than an EntityBroker thing - right now there is no particular
> relationship between the EntityBroker and the Portal.
>
> Cheers,
> Antranig.
>
>
> Quoting Aaron Zeckoski <aaronz@...>:
>
>> You could also do this with any tool which is entity broker enabled
>> (enabling takes about 15 minutes if you are using RSF). The extra
>> nicety here is that the tool becomes a entity enabled in Sakai and you
>> get to address things in it with URLs like this:
>> http://localhost:8080/portal/entityprefix/entityid/
>>
>> More info on EB here:
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/F7M
>>
>> I am not completely sure who put in the directtool stuff but I think
>> Ian Boston knows how it works. He is on holiday right now but you
>> might be able to reach him next week sometime. He is also responsible
>> for the Rwiki project these days so he could answer that part of your
>> question also.
>>
>> -AZ
>>
>>
>> On 8/1/07, Yuji Shinozaki <ys2n@...> wrote:
>>> We are looking at using directtool to send the user to a particular
>>> entry in rwiki (but within the context of the sakai portal), but we
>>> have some questions regarding doing that:
>>>
>>> 1. Is there any documentation for portal/directtool?  The only things
>>> I can find are email discussions and jira issues that obliquely
>>> describe how to use it.
>>>
>>> 2. Can you pass an HTML anchor somehow?  Iframes seem to make this
>>> quite a challenge. (It would seem that the portal itself would need
>>> to mediate when it constructs the iframe, or via some javascript
>>> intervention would need to ensue.  Cursed iframes!)
>>>
>>> Our immediate objective is sending users to a particular section of a
>>> particular rwiki page within the context of the sakai portal.
>>>
>>> yuji
>>> ----
>>> Yuji Shinozaki
>>> Sr. Technical Lead/Project Manager
>>> University of Virginia
>>> Advanced Technologies Group
>>> ys2n@...
>>>
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