[CLOSED]absolute urls in a launch page

June 20, 2016, 10:24 AM

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?

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Emily McAllister>,

June 20, 2016, 01:57 PM

CoolGuy

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?

June 20, 2016, 03:32 PM

susannah

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]

June 21, 2016, 01:35 PM

Francis Mariani

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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Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server

June 21, 2016, 01:47 PM

Francis Mariani

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

Francis

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June 21, 2016, 01:57 PM

Francis Mariani

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

Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server

June 21, 2016, 02:12 PM

CoolGuy

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.

June 23, 2016, 04:41 PM

susannah

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.

June 24, 2016, 04:07 AM

Wep5622

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

June 24, 2016, 08:21 AM

Squatch

quote:
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.