Workaround to use action.setRedirectURL in Portal UI action

[Igor Kozlov]

Hi  all,

At least for Jakarta action.setRedirectURL(url) doesn't work in the Portal .

Here is my workaround.

It adds extra function call before  action.setRedirectURL(url) + a code to get data in portal form.

new UserPreferences().setUrlToOpen(url);
action.setRedirectURL(url);

Line 90 of Form widget - add additional function call after last then to get 

loadForm($scope.data.table, sysID).then(constructResponseHandler(response)) .then(redirectFix);

	function redirectFix(){
		ctrl.data.action = "checkRedirect"
		ctrl.server.update().then(function(response){

			if(response.forceRedirectTo){
				$window.location = (response.forceRedirectTo);
			} else {
				ctrl.data.action = ""
			}
		})

	}

Server side action is:

if(input.action === "checkRedirect"){
 var urlToOpen = new UserPreferences().getUrlToOpen();
 if(urlToOpen){
  data.forceRedirectTo = urlToOpen;
 }
 return;
}

I save temp values to user preferences, but in your case in could be better to place temp data to user session.

var UserPreferences = Class.create();
UserPreferences.prototype = {
    initialize: function() {
		this.urlPref = "fix.redirectAction.url";
		this.urlPrefTimer = "fix.redirectAction.url.timer";
    },

	/*
	save url. use to fix action.setRedirect for the Portal
	*/
	setUrlToOpen:function(url){
		gs.getUser().savePreference(this.urlPref, url);
		gs.getUser().savePreference(this.urlPrefTimer, new Date().getTime());
		
	},
	
	/*
	When to url or it is older then 1 minute - returns empty string
	*/
	getUrlToOpen: function(){
		var url = "";
		var old = gs.getUser().getPreference(this.urlPrefTimer);
		var outDated = (new Date().getTime() - old ) /1000 > 60;
		
		if(!outDated) {
			url = gs.getUser().getPreference(this.urlPref);
		}
		
		return url;		
	},
	
    type: 'UserPreferences'
};

[Matt102]

Because I don't know what I'm doing I couldn't figure out all of what was going on above.

That said I hacked something that appears to be working for me - probably missing some essentials but I did:

//CLIENT CONTROLLER

// appended to extant line '.then(redirectFix);'
loadForm($scope.data.table, sysID).then(constructResponseHandler(response)).then(redirectFix);

// added this at the end
function redirectFix(){
	ctrl.data.action = "checkRedirect"	
	ctrl.server.update().then(function(response){
		
		if(response.forceRedirectTo){
			$window.location = (response.forceRedirectTo);
		} else {
			ctrl.data.action = ""
		}	
	})
}
	
// SERVER SIDE SCRIPT

//  added this at the end
if(input.action === "checkRedirect"){
	data.forceRedirectTo = 'https://<MY WANTED REDIRECT URL>';
	return;
}

[chanikya]

what is : this.urlPref = "fix.redirectAction.url";

              this.urlPrefTimer = "fix.redirectAction.url.timer";   in script include ?

in ROME : OOB widget after which line of code i have to add your client code / server code

[Igor Kozlov]

this.urlPref  and this.urlPrefTimer are

Just names of the user preference to store/restore data. You can use any text here

>in ROME : OOB widget after which line of code i have to add your client code / server code

In the client it would be line 135. 

Please refer to original message:

loadForm($scope.data.table, sysID).then(constructResponseHandler(response))   

->  place .then(redirectFix); after .then(constructResponseHandler(response))   

For server-side  it would be any place before following code

    if (input) {

so i would use line 20 for Rome