It's possible to log the access to a channel with the system log facility or a simple file when an user click in the desktop link... the link can be an external URL.The log must have the user id and the name of the URL for tracking user action in the desktop.It's possible using the Rewriter ...

hi,im trying two add two LDAP search DNs to a portal 6.2 organisation.with one search base dn it works fine.when i add another, all ldap auth for that org stops working.the docs confusingly state that if you have multiple search dns (not talking about multiple ldap servers here - just the ...

Hi,I am trying to run struts application in Portal the problem is in the execute method of an Action class.When I reach "return new ActionForward("/a.jsp")" the WebServer returns:[04/Feb/2004:15:24:01] finer (26089): WebModule[/publicationportlet]: Mapping contextPath='/publicationportlet' ...

any idea where to look to fix this?02/04/2004 11:22:24:300 AM MST: Thread[Thread-1798,5,main]ERROR: PSContainerProviderContext.getContent(): failed to get content, completed=[MGFDICMaint]02/04/2004 11:22:24:319 AM MST: Thread[Thread-148,5,main]ERROR: ProviderCaller.run(): exception thrown from ...

hello evrybody I would like that a paritcular site wont be rewriten by the gateway I would like that the users have direct access to the site.I have tried adding the full dns name to the generic_rule, but did not work, I also tried to add the URL to the Do Not Use Webproxy URL list.Any ideas on ...

Hii am installing a gateway on a seperate node!what is the difference between an instance and a profile on the gateway?thankx

Hi ! I am new to Portal 6.0 and want to know the way to store value permanently in the JSPProvider. The sample JSPProvider only store the value in single session and when user logout, the info are lost.Thanks in advance.

hi,i am trying to rewrite the following sites -www.test.com.ausubtest.test.com.aui go into the srap gateway config in the console sleect the proxy tab and in the proxies for domains and subdomains tabs i've tried entering test.com.au and test.com.au | *.the rewriter will rewrite the ...

I did a CustomURLScrapter provider to demo the the URLScraper provider according to the development guide, I am able to see the custom channel from the desktop, but the content is empty, I set the url pool at the display profile as:<Collection name="urlPool"><String ...

I've got a set of documents and i would like to protect by identity. I would like to know if i put the name of the document in the address bar, for instance, http://op.es/doc1.html to have the authentication window and then i could auth against the login window to knwo what can i do. For ...

Hi,I was wondering if it is possible to pass parameters or values from one channel to another, for ex. through JSP, etc. Thanks, Pablo

Hi,Has anyone got a set of Display Profile files that provides for example (using JSPTabContainer) tabs X, Y and Z when a 'standard' user logs in, only tab X on the anonymous desktop and tabs X, Y, Z and W when a user assigned to a special role logs in.I'm assuming there would be four files ...

Hello all,We migrated our organization portal from 6.1 to 6.2 recently and everything went well except for one thing. Users that got migrated from 6.1 have all their roles intact and see all of the channels that were added in 6.1, but if we add channels to their roles in 6.2, they do not ...

I'm using Sun One IDE Version 5 (update 1), with builtinApp Server 7, Internal Tomcat Web server 4.01, and I just installed the new Portlet Builder 2.0 plugin. I'm on Windows XP. I created a simple portlet using the Wizard, then tried to simulate it by right-clicking on the ...

I uninstalled the Portal 6.x version I had on my server so as to install the complete JES stack 'fresh' to demo to customers.When running the JES installer it informs me that Portal is still installed and that it will not install a new version.This is driving me crazy - there are no Portal ...

Hi!I have a problem, when I set preferedlocale for user to ru_RU. Some of russian characters are displayed as question marks. That does not happen to russian words, that appear in channel templates and in .properties files, just with the words that are produced by the provider (e.g. names of ...

Hi people,I need to show a website on a channel. For ex, the cnn homepage on a channel. I know that the page is much more big than the channel size but scrolbars will do.My question is: Can we display the content of the web page on a channel? How? Because, as far as I know, all what URL sraper ...

PS v 6.2We have a single Org (domain) that has all the users with different identities (supplier, customer and distributor). Each idenetity type has its own Role. Each role should have its own Desktop look & feel.I understand how the branding could be changed at an org level (by creating ...

Techies,I have a jsp page that is accessible on a web server. If I access it through portal, the page just hangs and the browser returns invalid server response.Can u plz give hints on this

Hi there,I have the following problem with Portal Server 6.2 configuration which hopefully someone here will be able to help me with. Basically our current setup is the Sun Portal Server 6.2, ID server 6.1 and Directory server all sitting on one (Solaris 9) box. We now wish to separate the ...

The project requires the content of URL with a few parameters displayed in the URLScraper channel, for example: http://www.example.com/?userid=tommy&password=passI put the URL with the parameters in the provider, but the content only show as it without parameters. My questions:1. Does ...

Hi,Please could somebody advise on best practice for installing Portal Server v6?When I install Identity Server and Portal Server at the same time in the JES Installer into an Application Server, the Identity Server works fine, but if I browse to http://myserver/portal I get the IS admin ...

Where can i find the api of genericportlet and the rest of class related with portlet?

I recently migrated from PS3.0 to PS6.1. Everything seems to be working except the Desktop customizations. I've successfully modified the channels displayed, but the desktop "branding" doesn't show-up. I looked in the banner.template file in ...

How can i solve this error? I did the example of helloworld in the guide that is in the developers guide. "ERROR:Channel Timed Out "I add the channel to a container and ths error is the only think that i can see. I thought that i could see another thing. I would like to see a HelloWorld- ...

Hi,We want to retrive the encrypted password from DS 5.2 to build SSO Adaper String for Portal. The syntax of the DS for userPassword attribute is OctectString. We use JNDI to retrive all the attributes from central DS and populate Portal DS. The following code explans this more.private Vector ...

Anyone say what is the method to get the Gateway name / url via JSP?ThanksFausto

Hello All, We are running Portal Server 6.0 and have an environment where our Profile/LDAP server is on a separate from our Portal/Platform server. I need to know what configuration file on the Portal/Platform server contains the information for what Profile/LDAP server it is pointing at. We ...

I am running a 6.0 portal server using the JSPTabContainer layout with multiple tabs. Is there a URL that we can place on a web page outside of the portal server environment that will direct the user to a specific tab on the portal when the user does not currently have a valid session and the ...

I would like to run a web service on a remote machine that checks if the user of the web service exists as a portal user. My initial thought was to just log the user in whenever they attempt to use the web service and then log them out at the end. I have researched the AuthContext class and ...

Hello,What is the difference between IPLANET WEB SERVER Enterprise Edition and Netscape Enterprise Server ?Are these softs them same?Thanks

Hi, we are doing some tests and we would like to have 2 machines running the portal and one gateway at the front. The first thing we are trying is to make Identity Server redundant.So we installed on Machine A the identity Server and then in Machine B, added machine B to the server list in the ...

Hi, I have this error: When I try to edit a channel and my locale is not set to en (English) the portal desktop send this error:com.sun.portal.providers.ProviderException: JSPProvider.processJSPFile(): jsp=doedit.jsp, com.sun.portal.providers.ProviderException: JSPProvider.processJSPFile(): ...

Hello To my knowledge external ldap mapping is not supported in portal 6.0 & portal 6.1, my question is it implemented in portal 6.2 ?! , If not is there any workaround that can solve this issue and considered as a professtional solution !

Hi,I am developing a simple News portlet which displays different news based on the role of the logged in user. I am planning to use a simple JSPProvider that has a JSP which includes a different news jsp for each different role. Howeve, i donot know how to get the role of logged in user from ...

Hi,I am trying to use log4j with Portal server 6.1 using log taglibs from jakarta.Here is what i've done:1. copy taglibs-log.jar in /etc/opt/SUNWps/desktop/classes2. copy taglibs-log.tld in /etc/opt/SUNWps/desktop/default/tld3. put log statements in JSPsfor example: <log:debug>This is ...

Howdy,I was wondering how you guys have modelled pageflows from within a portlet/provider? Struts seems like an appropriate option, but you cannot use it right away from a portlet/provider, right?Thanks for your input!Shaka

Hi,We want to customize the Portal login page to display the user's current version of Java. I've modified membership.jsp to invoke an applet to do this but it never finds my applet class.Where should I put the applet so it will be found? Thanks.

For some reason that I have yet to determine, I'm unble to login to the portal. When reviewing the configuration, all of the Containers are gone.Is there a way to replace the XML so I can at least get back to the default sample portal desktop?

We need to let users login from an anonymous (public) portal to an ldap authenticated one.On the anon one we have a portlet that is the basic LoginProvider that I modified to add the org we want to login to (org=xxx). When you login with this it takes you to the right place but you get this ...

Hi All,Please tell me whether I can install the gateway component of the SRA Portal 6.0 on the same server where I have installed the Portal server.I tried installing the same but after installing portal server when I run the pssetup shell script for installation then it doesn't show the ...

Hi ,we want to add parameters to the tabs ,for eg i would like to add a parameter test to the tab "My Front Page " as http://servername/portal/dt?JSPTabContainer.setSelected=MyFrontPageTabPanelCont ainer&last=false&test = test Any help would be appreciated

While we were working on some portal-base (jsp) software, the portal suddently stopped working (server error, 501 I think). A few seconds later, when we tried to load it, we got an exception that I'll paste after my post. We restored a backup from a few weeks ago, and copied over our projects, ...

Hi,I have portal 3 sp4 and iws6 installed on the same server. The portal basically has URL scrappers of the web server. I want to access the user profile from the JSP sitting on the iws6. For this i have added the following lines in the JSP <%@ page import="java.io.*"%><%@ page ...

Hi,I'm using the Sun Portal Server 6.1 suite to install the portal server. The installation goes through successfully. But when I try to login/self register through the default login portlet, I get the following error.ERROR: DesktopServlet.handleException()java.lang.NullPointerExceptionat ...

Hi all,i get an info about INTERESTING FEATURE of SunONE Portal Server/Network Identity like this :* assume there is a web application somewhere for example Yahoo.com* the application have a login page* it has its own authentication mechanisme as well as its own user/password databasethen the ...

Hi all:I am using Portal 6.1.When i logout in portal server, the server will redirect me to the amconsole login page. My question is, how to redirect to portal login page(/portal/dt) when i logout in the server. thx!

Hi,Does the portal support WEBDAV? (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning)I'm running the portal server 6.2 in secure mode (with SRA), and try to run an application using WEBDAV. This application enables to open and edit word documents located on an application server which is beside ...

Hi,Hope someone can help with what seems like a trivial problem but keeps giving us headaches.We have two Sun machines running solaris 8. One hosts directory server, identity server and portal 6.0. This machine also runs the rewriter proxy daemon.The second machine also runs solaris 8 and hosts ...

Sun documentation talks about packaging channels and providers as .par files but not 'container' providers.Is is possible to package container providers as .par files, if yes - please list the steps on how it can be done? I tried to package containers the same way I did for providers/channels ...