In view of the many options available in WebCenter Spaces for defining navigation in your portal, a consistent and reliable method for accessing pages and application user interface pages (UI) is essential. This requirement is easily met through WebCenter Spaces user interface URLs—or pretty URLs.
Pretty URLs provide a means of delivering predictable URLs to navigate to specific locations within the WebCenter Spaces UI. For example, when you create a Space, pretty URLs make it possible to know which URL to use to go to the General Settings page of that Space. Imagine that you create a page template for a Space or the Home Space. You do not provide a link in the template for accessing the Resources page, where you can edit the template. Rather than being an error, this may very well be a choice: you can always use a pretty URL to go to the Space's Resources page, under Space Settings, or, for the Home Space, the Resources page in the Administration pages.
Because pretty URLs are shorter than standard URLs, you can use them to shield your users from complex application page URLs.
This appendix provides the syntax for the pretty URLs you can use to access user Profiles, pages, Spaces, and administration screens in the WebCenter Spaces UI.
This appendix includes the following sections:
Use Profile pretty URLs to navigate to your own or another user's Profile page. Note that when you omit the user name or when the user name is the current user's name, the URL launches the My Profile page; but if the user name is provided and is not the current user's name, the URL launches the User Profile page.
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For information about the My Profile and User Profile pages, see Table 7-2, "Seeded System Pages".Table A-1 lists and describes the syntax for the UI URLs you can formulate for easy access to your own or another user's Profile.
Table A-1 User Interface URLs to a User Profile
Use Case | Pretty URL Syntax |
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Take the user to the My Profile or User Profile page that is defined at the application level |
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Take the user to the My Profile or User Profile page that is defined at the Space level |
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Table A-2 lists and describes the syntax for the UI URLs you can formulate for easy access to pages in the Home Space.
Table A-2 User Interface URLs to Pages in the Home Space
Use Case | Pretty URL Syntax |
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Take user to the home page of the Home Space |
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Take user to the Home Space page he or she last accessed |
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Take user to a specific page in the Home Space |
The variable |
Table A-3 lists and describes the syntax for the UI URLs you can use to access Space pages and Space administration pages. Only users assigned a role that includes the permission Administration: Manage All
can access Space administration pages.
In Table A-3, wherever the variable SpaceName
is indicated, use the Space name that is specified by the Space URL on the General page of a Space's administration settings (Figure A-1).
You can also find the appropriate Space name next to the Name label by accessing the About Space dialog. For more information, see Section 29.9.1, "Accessing Space Information."
Table A-3 User Interface URLs to Pages in a Space
Use Case | Pretty URL Syntax |
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Take user to the specified Space, where the last-accessed page is displayed |
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Take user to the first page of a Space |
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Take user to a specific page in a Space |
The variable |
Take Space moderator to Space Settings page |
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Take Space moderator to General subpage of Space Settings page |
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Take Space moderator to Roles subpage of Space Settings page |
Note: When a Subspace inherits its members and roles from the parent Space, you cannot use a pretty URL to navigate to the Subspace Roles page because it does not exist. |
Take Space moderator to Members subpage of Space Settings page |
Note: When a Subspace inherits its members and roles from the parent Space, you cannot use a pretty URL to navigate to the Subspace Members page because it does not exist. |
Take Space moderator to Available Pages under the Pages subpage of the Space Settings page |
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Take Space moderator to System Pages under the Pages subpage of Space Settings page |
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Take Space moderator to Services subpage of Space Settings page |
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Take Space moderator to Subspaces subpage of Space Settings page |
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Take Space moderator to Custom Attributes subpage of Space Settings page |
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Take Space moderator to Resources subpage of Space Settings page |
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Table A-4 lists and describes the UI URL syntax to use to access WebCenter Spaces Administration pages. These pages are accessible only to WebCenter Spaces administrators and are used for application configuration.
Table A-4 User Interface URLs to WebCenter Spaces Administration Pages
Use Case | Pretty URL Syntax |
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Take the administrator to the application Administration page |
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Take the administrator to the General subpage of the Configuration page |
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Take the administrator to the Spaces subpage of the Spaces page |
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Take the administrator to the Space Templates subpage of the Spaces page |
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Take the administrator to the Roles subpage of the Security page |
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Take the administrator to the Users and Groups subpage of the Security page |
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Take the administrator to the Resources page |
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Take the administrator to the Services subpage of the Configuration page |
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Take the administrator to the Business Role Pages subpage of the Pages page |
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Take the administrator to the Personal Pages subpage of the Pages page |
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Take the administrator to the System Pages subpage of the Pages page |
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