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susannah
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our corp portal won't run wf launch pages b/c the run buttons are relative urls, its seems
adding a base tag didn't work
here's the base tag I added
<BASE href=http://wefwcdcpvm004.nyumc.org:80>

here's a sample request id
<request requestid="15" sourcetype="typeHtml" targettype="frame" targetname="wsc_ad_frame" ibif_ex="weekly_scorecard_fs.htm" 
ibic_server="EDASERVE" activereport="0" reportcolumns="" ibiapp_app="sc_weekly_app">
</request>

any ideas how I can edit a launch page to make it actually work from inside a very greedy portal?

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CoolGuy
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Susannah,

So, what version are you on? Also, let me break this down to see if I'm understanding you...You've got a portal, that you are trying to run your own launch pages from. You stuck them in via portal designer via 1 column layout and by inserting them within a responsive panel if in 8.1, right? Or are you working in 7.x?


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susannah
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77..says in my signature line.
portal isn't mine, its the organization's.
a run button in a launch page is a relative url. using a base tag to make it an abs url doesn't seem to work
[would have helped if I had put code tags around my opening post... in a coma today]



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Francis Mariani
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susannah, you added the BASE tag via the text editor? maybe it needs quotes (or double-quotes) and maybe an ending slash and maybe will work without the 80...

<BASE href="http://wefwcdcpvm004.nyumc.org:80/"> 

<BASE href='http://wefwcdcpvm004.nyumc.org/'>


Francis


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Francis Mariani
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Though, I do wonder if this will work because of all the proprietary IBI code...


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Francis Mariani
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OK, in WebFOCUS 8.0.08 it does work.

This is the BASE tag - it must be within the HEAD tag:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML><HEAD>
<BASE href="http://reportingTest.myCompany.ca/ibi_apps/">
...
</HEAD>
<BODY ...

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Francis


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CoolGuy
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I didn't know about the BASE tag. That's pretty cool. Sorry, I heard portal and thought 8.x. I'm not too familiar with the old 7.x stuff. Worked with it for like a month and we switched over to 8.0.09. We actually ended up having to rewrite/rework all the HTML from our old 7.x environment so far in our new one, due to things just not working anymore sadly enough.


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susannah
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thanks Francesco
yep I tried variations on the coolguy, when you first write a launch page in devstu, you'll see the base tag in the code but it vanishes after you actually save it.



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Wep5622
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quote:
Originally posted by susannah:
our corp portal won't run wf launch pages b/c the run buttons are relative urls


Relative to what exactly? Relative in what way? An example URL might help.

If your URL's start with a slash (/) they should work and that's usually what you want, unless you managed to have your static files (HTML, JS, CSS, images) on a different host somehow?

Relative and absolute URL's are a confusing topic, because the same notion can mean different things:
http://my.domain/x.html is an absolute URL
/x.html is also an absolute URL within the domain (should we call that "domain absolute"?)
x.html is a relative URL


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Squatch
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Originally posted by Wep5622:
/x.html is also an absolute URL within the domain (should we call that "domain absolute"?)

I have always thought of the leading slash as "the path and file on this server. I never thought to give it a name, but it is an absolute path on the local server.


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