Portlet
Overview
The Portlet allows you to retrieve information from the WorkflowGen User Portal homepage.
The results received from HTTP are stored in XML RSS format and classified by category. This format allows the processing and presentation of the data with any language able to read and parse XML content.
URL and HTTP parameters
URL
You can reach the content generated by the Portlet module with the following URL: http://yoursite/wfgen/show.aspx?QUERY=SHOW_RSS
.
Parameters
Examples
Retrieve all categories for the user whose username is johnd
:
Retrieve the actions to do (normal and overdue) for the user whose username is johnd
:
Retrieve information relative to the HR
category for the current user:
Security
Authentication
To connect to the Portlet module, you must use an account that has access to the WorkflowGen User Portal (e.g. wfgen_admin
).
Username with or without a domain name
You must remove the domain name from the username when calling the Portlet module if the usernames are prefixed by the domain name (see User Management for more information).
RSS format specification
Official specification
Official information about the RSS 2.0 standard is available at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss.
Content example
XML RSS nodes description
List of available categories
The available categories are as follows:
If a category is empty at runtime, it is not added to the RSS content.
Possible errors
When an error occurs, the HTTP status of the page is modified and a runtime error will be displayed with a custom number.
The following errors can occur during the execution of the script:
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