Deep linking to Reports perspective

[Prabudoss H]

Hi,

Is it possible to deep link the "Reports" perspective or any other perspective for that matter into a page in hippo CMS?

Thx,

Prabu

[Minos Chatzidakis]

Hi Prabu,

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 8:59 PM, Prabudoss H <prabu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to deep link the "Reports" perspective or any other perspective for that matter into a page in hippo CMS?

What is a "page in hippo CMS"? Do you mean a page in the site? Or perhaps you mean deep link from a button (wicket link) in the CMS?

I once built a custom perspective based on [1], and then wanted to make it show when the user clicks on a button in the cms. That button was placed on the editor toolbar, next to the document actions (edit, save, publish etc). 

Disclaimer: 

- This is old code (Hippo 7.8) that if used as is, may not work or have side effects in later than 7.8 Hippo versions

- Solution has never been used in production

- Solution has not been verified by Engineering, this was for a PoC

- The code assumes that the custom perspective registers itself in the PluginContext. Otherwise it's not accessible (by code) and thus the following method won't work. Looking at org.onehippo.cms7.reports.ReportsPerspective I see it doesn't register itself...

Please make sure you read the disclaimer above.

I registered my perspective to the IPluginContext:

context.registerService(this, "my-custom-perspective-id");

Then in my custom workflow button, I did this: 

Perspective myPerspective = getPluginContext().getService("my-custom-perspective-id", MyCustomPerspective.class);

myPerspective.open();

Last thing, the implementation of method open() in MyCustomPerspective:

public void open() {
  redraw();

  focus(null);
}

[1] https://www.onehippo.org/library/concepts/editor-interface/cms-perspectives.html

hth!

Minos

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Thx,

Prabu

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[Prabudoss H]

Thanks for sharing the information Minos. Yes, it should be accessible from a page in the site. Since the reports perspective is already built-in, i was expecting if there is a direct way (direct link) to access it without any customization. 

Hi Prabu,

Thx,

Prabu

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[Minos Chatzidakis]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Prabudoss H <prabu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for sharing the information Minos. Yes, it should be accessible from a page in the site. Since the reports perspective is already built-in, i was expecting if there is a direct way (direct link) to access it without any customization. 

As far as I know there isn't; only the content perspective is loaded in case you've provided in the URL the request parameter 'path' or 'uuid', see [1]. It would require customization on that plugin to achieve what you're asking.

But secondly, it does sound to me quite unsafe to expose such a url. I wouldn't even feel confortable exposing the hostname of the CMS server.. 

And I'm really wondering about the use case.. 

cheers,

Minos

[1] org.hippoecm.frontend.plugins.cms.root.ParameterInUrlController

 

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[Prabudoss H]

I see what you are saying. The usecase is for the site admin users to access the CMS interface. It will only be shown to the site admin users and there would be strict SAML based authentication to let the admin users into the system

Thx,

Prabu