directtool and anchors

[Yuji Shinozaki]

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
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Yuji Shinozaki
Sr. Technical Lead/Project Manager
University of Virginia
Advanced Technologies Group
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[Aaron Zeckoski]

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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[Antranig Basman]

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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[Ian Boston-2]

If you want anchors, I would use Antranig's approach. Its slightly more
complicated as you have to encode the target url, but  more complete.

Direct tool is simple but less functional.

replace the /portal/tool/ part of the url with /portal/directtool/  and
the portal will reconstruct the portal state, however it only works
where there is a single tool state to be reconstructed and does not work
with anchors.

Ian


antranig@... wrote:

> 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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>> --
>> Aaron Zeckoski (aaronz@...)
>> Senior Research Engineer - CARET - Cambridge University
>> [http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/~aaronz/]
>> Sakai Fellow - [http://aaronz-sakai.blogspot.com/]
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