L-Code with parameters for internal links

Is it possible to add parameters to an internal link when using the L tag?

Something like <L CODE="C01&param=test">test link</L>

Is there any way to accomplish this within GX?

Hi Lucas,

Hmmmm no, that won't work in the L tag. Nor is there another way to accomplish it.

If you made an external link, you can always add the parameter there.
Won't work for other types of links though.

Hope that helps.

Greetings,

Patrick

It makes me wonder: what is the use-case here?

Are you maybe trying to create a database link, but working around the 'external database'-pages functionality, where the editor can just search for the parameter when creating the link?

The wm:link-tag (inside the presentation JSP) could also do this kind of things, but why need it?

Use case is that the editors want to track links with omniture. For this to be possible they need to add an parameter to the links. Any way this is possible within webmanager?

What I usually see is that a Javascript function simply changes all URLs found in a page. Some page specific code is defined and added to every (relevant) URL found in the DOM of the page. E.g. external links are determined and prepended with a clickout counter.

The script is usually added to the page presentation.

Greetings,

Patrick

Maybe this should be an extension of the LinkTag: add a getQuerystring and setQuerystring

Maybe this one will solve all your problems?

http://jira.gxdeveloperweb.com/jira/browse/GXWM-10262

Regards,

Michel

It gives extra options but it doesn't solve the problem he mentioned.
The solution Michel gives would a parameter based on what type the link is. If it's a mediaitem use this and if its a page use that.

What we would like to see is a solution where you can add a parameter like a omniture tag. So you can link to a page like www.gx.nl/web/show?omniture=var1
Currently you can only do this by using an external url.

Lucas, correct me if I'm wrong on this one.

Pax,

That is indeed what I want to do. The url only solution of the L tag is not going to help us as we do not want to bother this. There seems to be a request in jira (GXWM-10262) to fix this so I just hope it will be picked up soon.

www.gx.nl/web/show?omniture=var1

Just a little offtopic heads-up: mind the caching system here! All these links will be unique, so something has to be done to prevent a unexpected big cache here.

Workaround:
If the link-building proces is 'page' specific (so all links on that page should get ?omniture=var1) a Javascript function that simply changes all URLs found in that page (or div/span) might just do the trick. You can use page labels to send the 'omniture=var1' into the javascript.

We know about the caching. It was one of the reasons I told them they probably didn't want to do it, but they still insisted on it.

The links are not page specific. They can have multiple links on one page with different omniture tags linking to multiple pages. On another page you could have the same page links but with different omniture tags so it is really hard to fix this with javascript since there isn't any logic to build.

If you could add parameters while creating a link it would fix everything. You can already do this with the wm:link tag by adding your own variables.