Need to accessing Dashboard environment from within an external ASP page...

[Charlie Frias]

I've run into a roadblock- four days running now. It's costing me a lot of
frustration.

My goal is to create a navigation web part that uses the current user's
permissions to dynamically build a heirarchical tree of accessible folders
and indicate which folder the user currently has 'open' within the Documents
dashboard.

I've tried these approaches to no avail:
1) Put my tree-building code (I'm building XML to be rendered with XSLT)
into the getContent function in an embedded vbscript... No good because I
required recursion and function-calling in order to succeed properly.
2) Put my tree-building code in an externally referenced ASP page
(ContentLink property) with IsolationRequired set to yes. This gives me
access to almost everything I want (function calling, recursion, and
LOGON_USER)... but I lose dashboard css styles, the links I create open into
the webpart frame instead of redirecting the dashboard to the new Document
folder, and I don't have access to which URL the DASHBOARD is on.
3) Put my code in an externally referenced ASP page withOUT Isolation.
This is almost perfect. But now, though I've gained back the dashboard css
styles and navigation of the entire dashboard (not just the frame), I give
up the access to the LOGON_USER server variable.

I can't seem to win!

Who can help me??? (If I'm able to put together a solid part, I may be
interested in selling it... thus a reward may be involved.)

Thanks in advance!

[Charlie Frias]

I received some advice under the same-named thread in this group:
microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver.development.

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