Portal Push

Portlets can be automatically updated by using the Portal Push functionality. If an updated is done in one portlet, a push event can trigger updates to connected portlets. A portal push rest connector must be configured to access this functionality.

Studio - Workflow

1. Create a table element with two columns (use the exact column names):

   • PortletInternalName

   • Action

2. In the PortletInternalName column enter the internal names of the portlets that are to be refreshed

3. In the Action column enter REFRESH

4. Create a Machine step to trigger the push event, using the PortalPush connector.

Create PortalPush Rest Connector

1. Log on to Flow Studio, go to Environment - Connectors and click Add

2. Set up:

• Name = The name of the connector

• Type = Rest Service

• Base address = XX (in example: http://localhost/Trunk.NovaCura.Portal.Web/api)

• Encoding for url parameters = Unicode (UTF-8)

• Cache metadata = No

• Save

3. Click on REST connector project - EDIT 4. Set up:

• Connector name = XX (in example: DefaultConnectorName)

• Connector description = the description of the connector

• Base path = XX (in example: http://localhost/Trunk.NovaCura.Portal.Web/api) Click Create/update connector button

5. Click Save button in top right corner.

• Click on REST connector project - EDIT again

• Click on Models in the navigator tree

• Click on NEW FROM JSON

6. Use following JSON to generate required models:

    {
        "PushEventModels": [
            {"PortletInternalName":"pptbl1","Action":"REFRESH"},
            {"PortletInternalName":"pprv1","Action":"REFRESH"}
        ]
    }

You can change one of the new created model name from NEWMODEL to for example PUSHMODEL

7. Click on DefaultConnectorName and ADD in Operations to create operation. When the requested parameters have been entered click OK.

8. Click on Parameters and NEW BODY

9. Enter Body data, click OK and then Create/update connector

10. If asked for content type for rest requests, select Set content-type to application/json and click ok

11. Save the connector