tab redirection?

Is there anyway to get "direct tab access" in portal/with portlets. I want to have the main tab link to different tabs so they can click the links instead of the tabs at the top. I figure I can just appended the setSelected variable to the url of the desktop and that will handle making sure I get to the right tab, but am not sure about this.

I, however, have no idea if this would even work, and what reprocussions it may have with respect to the portal life cycle.When I redirect into the new tab, will it call the appropiate onrender methods and and other required elements? Might IPC somehow be a better solution for this (I doubt it, but figured I would throw it out there in case I could somehow force focus if another portlet recieved an event)?

Thanks for the help.

[793 byte] By [jbjonesjr] at [2007-11-26 8:28:45]
# 1
If the question is how to access to a specific tab withi JSPTabContainer, you should try : http://yourdomain/portal/dt?JSPTabContainer.setSelected=JSPTabContainer%2F[b ]TheTabName&last=false
pascal25 at 2007-7-6 21:46:18 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Portal Servers...
# 2

I know how to address it, but was curious if there was a special way to switch tabs from within a portlet.

I tried a basic portlet where a button click triggered a javascript window.location event to change to another tab, and the change never happened (I assumed that the portlet/portal render-cycle ate my window redirection before it could happen.

that was more my question, how can I make the tab change from inside a portlet.

jbjonesjr at 2007-7-6 21:46:18 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Portal Servers...
# 3
And to answer my own question, it seems a normal html hyperlink is not bound by the portlet life cycle, so this is the way to do redirection.
jbjonesjr at 2007-7-6 21:46:18 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Portal Servers...