URL Launcher

Use

You can use UrlLauncher to launch any URL.

Provider specific Information

UrlLauncher is provider agnostic. Items may belong to any connector.

Supported Actions

Action name can be anything.

Properties

UrlLauncher expects the following properties:

url (mandatory)

URL to be launched
System (optional)
This property should point to a portal system alias and when it is maintained, the current absolute URL property shall be used as relative path, appended to the extracted base URL. If this property is not maintained, the url value shall be treated as absolute URL.

All other properties will be passed as name=value encoded value to the target URL.

Example for URL Launcher

URL launcher which absolute property value name is url:

            <Action name="googleSearch" handler="UrlLauncher" launchInNewWindow="yes">
  <Properties>
    <Property name="url" value="https://www.google.com/webhp"/>
    <Property name="q" value="SAP URL launcher"/>
    <Property name="hl" value="en">
  </Properties>
 </Action>

Example for UWL Launcher Using a Portal System

Portal system definition:
UWL configuration:

            <Action name="webSearch" handler="UrlLauncher" launchInNewWindow="yes">
  <Properties>
    <Property name="System" value=""GGL>
    <Property name="url" value="webhp"/>
    <Property name="q" value="SAP URL launcher">
    <Property name="hl" value="en"
  </Properties>
 </Action>

Both examples shall launch the same URL: http://www.google.com/webhp?q=SAP URL launcher&hl=en