Setting the URL in the Browser Address bar?
Can anyone tell me how I can set the address displayed in the browser address bar to what I want the user to see?
We have a single page that displays various reports within it and we'd like to put the report name in the browser address (for bookmarking and other reasons).
Can this be done? I read some ref info about changing the navigation method to "redirect" but that is not the answer for this.
Any help at all would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thanks,
<-j->
PS I tried to assign Duke Dollars but its failed again. Once I am able to, I will assgin some to this posting.
[620 byte] By [
jarbus] at [2007-11-26 9:34:44]
# 1
Hi There,
Im not sure if I understand your question right. But in 1 page if you have different sections and you want the user to be able to bookmark each section separately, and you want a seperate link for each section?
What comes to my mind is HTML Anchors.
Im sure there are other solutions too.
Hope it helps
K
# 2
Thanks for your response, but no, that is not what I'm trying to do, although not THAT far off.
My app displays a selected report to the user on the page, lets call it MyUserDisplaypage.faces
I want to be able to set the url in the browser address bar to something like this:
MyUserDisplaypage/DailyReport08092006.html
so that the address is descriptive of what report is currently being displayed
AND
so that it can be bookmarked and then recalled -
by going to MyUserDisplaypage.faces and loading (for display) the
DailyReport08092006.html data report
I hope this makes it clear as to what I'm trying to do
and any assistance you could provide would be hugely appreciated!
Thanks again,
<-j->
BTW - I am STILL trying to resolve my inability to assign some Duke Dollars to this!
# 3
Does this help? http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/learning/tutorials/2/boo kmarks.html
# 4
Thanks but no - that's no help for this.I mentioned in my original post reading about changing the navigation method to redirect - and that it really wouldn't work for me.This tutorial is where I read about this.Thanks again,<-j->
# 5
Could you instead set your url like this?/faces/MyUserDisplaypage/DailyReport.jsp?report=08092006Are the reports generated on the fly or do you have a directory of a static set of reports?
# 6
That might be a possibility, but how would I even do that?
My reports may be both: that is some may be generated on the fly from xml source and some may be from pre-existing html report dirs.
I guess the real question here is how to set the browser address bar to show what I want it to show?
# 7
> Thanks for your response, but no, that is not what
> I'm trying to do, although not THAT far off.
>
> y app displays a selected report to the user on the
> page, lets call it MyUserDisplaypage.faces
>
> want to be able to set the url in the browser
> address bar to something like this:
>
> MyUserDisplaypage/DailyReport08092006.html
>
> so that the address is descriptive of what report is
> currently being displayed
> AND
> so that it can be bookmarked and then recalled -
>
> y going to MyUserDisplaypage.faces and loading (for
> display) the
> DailyReport08092006.html data report
>
You say you looked into redirecting, so I suppose putting something like the following in MyUserDisplaypage.faces is not what you want:
public String button1_action() {
try {
ExternalContext exContext = this.getExternalContext();
exContext.redirect("/MyUserDisplaypage/DailyReport08092006.html");
this.getFacesContext().responseComplete();
} catch (Exception e) {
error(e.toString());
}
return null;
}
>> Could you instead set your url like this?
>> /faces/MyUserDisplaypage/DailyReport.jsp?report=08092006
> That might be a possibility, but how would I even do that?
The bookmarkable URL tutorial that we mention above shows one way in the "Creating a Bookmarkable URL" section. The DailyReport.jsp would generate a report based on the parameter passed in, or perhaps redirect to one that already exists?
Am I getting any closer?
# 8
Thanks. That just might work for me, but it would require me to switch to redirection, wouldn't it?
The thing is, when the user navigates to a new page, (or even just loading a new report into the same page), I need to execute a few things before leaving the current page.
If this could still be accomplished using redirection navigation than I suppose I might have to reconsider switching.
Can I still do what I need to do using redirection?
<-j->
# 9
If you still need to do some things before leaving the page, then in your button action method (or your hyperlink action method) do something like this, perhaps:
public String button1_action() {
... Do Your Stuff Here ...
try {
ExternalContext exContext = this.getExternalContext();
exContext.redirect("/MyUserDisplaypage/DailyReport08092006.html");
this.getFacesContext().responseComplete();
} catch (Exception e) {
error(e.toString());
}
return null;
}
