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Use

Navigation by URL enables the launching of the portal desktop in a specific navigation node context. By adding a modified version of a portal page URL to the regular URL used to launch the portal, you can open directly to a specific page. When you open with a certain portal page, the other navigation elements, such as top-level navigation, detailed navigation, and so on, adjust themselves accordingly.

This capability applies only to content that is part of a user's roles.

Features

  • Users can open a specific node and all other navigation elements open to the correct corresponding nodes.

  • It is possible to implement bookmarking for the extended URL.

  • For collaboration purposes, it is possible to share the extended URL with another user if the specific page is part of that user's content.

  • It is possible to add parameters to the extended URL.

Activities

The regular URL for launching the portal is http://portalserver/irj/portal . To implement URL navigation:

  1. From the Portal Catalog, select the page as it appears within the roles hierarchy with which you want to launch the portal.

  2. From the Quick Info pane below the Portal Catalog, copy the name of the page (PCD URL value) and save it in a text editor, replacing the string PCD: with ROLES:// .

  3. Open your browser and add the following string to the default portal URL:

    ?NavigationTarget =< value saved in text editor >

  4. Save the new URL, which you can then use to launch your portal.