Hi,

how do I know when a user returns to a page with a Struts portlet (or
any portlet, for that matter)?

We have a portal (WPS v5) with several pages.  On PageA, there is
Portlet1, a Struts portlet.  The user performs some steps within that
portlet.  Having reached step 3 of 5, he decides to go to a different
portal page, PageB.  After some time, he goes back to PageA using the
portal navigation (in the theme).  Portlet1 still displays step 3 of 5.

For us, this is a problem.  We want to have the user start over again
with step 1 of 5 whenever he returns to PageA.  That is, the welcome
file (in web.xml) is supposed to be called and forward to a Struts
action which must be executed.  Is there a way to signal the event "user
returns to page" to the portlet?

We'd appreciate any help or comment.  Regards, Sascha

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I have exactly the same problem. Did you find a solution yet? I think you ha
ve to adjust the PageBarInclude.jsp and/or the PlaceBarInclude.jsp. Both jsp
's are includes in the default.jsp.

quote:
Originally posted by Sascha Mamsch 
Hi,

how do I know when a user returns to a page with a Struts portlet (or
any portlet, for that matter)?

We have a portal (WPS v5) with several pages.  On PageA, there is
Portlet1, a Struts portlet.  The user performs some steps within that
portlet.  Having reached step 3 of 5, he decides to go to a different
portal page, PageB.  After some time, he goes back to PageA using the
portal navigation (in the theme).  Portlet1 still displays step 3 of 5.

For us, this is a problem.  We want to have the user start over again
with step 1 of 5 whenever he returns to PageA.  That is, the welcome
file (in web.xml) is supposed to be called and forward to a Struts
action which must be executed.  Is there a way to signal the event "user
returns to page" to the portlet?

We'd appreciate any help or comment.  Regards, Sascha 

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You could have a request attribute passed from page to page..    Upon return
ing to the page (or on refresh to.. no difference) the attribute will not be
 there...    Then you can check for it's presence in the jsps and if it's no
t there forward to the 1st
page...

<logic:notPresent attribute="DONTRUNAGAIN">
<logic:forward name="WelcomeAction"/>
</logic:notPresent>

One note.. I haven't done this yet.. thought of it today and plan to try it 
out this week.. so your mileage may vary... :-)

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quote:
Originally posted by gpinkham 
You could have a request attribute passed from page to page..    Upon return
ing to the page (or on refresh to.. no difference) the attribute will not be
 there...    Then you can check for it's presence in the jsps and if it's no
t there forward to the 1st
page...

<logic:notPresent attribute="DONTRUNAGAIN">
<logic:forward name="WelcomeAction"/>
</logic:notPresent>

One note.. I haven't done this yet.. thought of it today and plan to try it out this wee
k.. so your mileage may vary... :-) 
 

did anybody solve this problem.. i a also facing the same problem.. i have a
 user list portlet in page A which is a struts based portlet on click of the
 user name i should go to page b user information portlet which is also a st
ruts portlet. first time i click on the user link i go to index.jsp and farw
ord a action get userinfo.do then when i go back to the User List again i cl
ick on other user in the list it goes to the UserIfno portlet it just displa
yes the previous user info and it dosent go to index.jsp for farword... 


can some body help me in this?

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