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Posted on 01/07/2010 17:54:19
Hi,

Sometimes we need to manipulate links but Dw tags are always relative, except if you place some in <a> tags.

If we could have a global tag with the current domain, we would be able to send absolute links without the use of javascript

Best Regards,
Nuno

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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 02/07/2010 10:23:35
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Hi Nuno

Could you please elaborate? I'm not sure I fully understand.
 
Posted on 02/07/2010 11:44:52
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Hi Nicolai,

Quite recently we had a client that wanted the newslist with links to Blogger, Facebook and Twitter in each newslist item. Using either html or xslt, I never get the absolute path only relative ones.

When working with simple href attributes, that's no problem, but when we need to build a specific href, sending Dw's full URL as a parameter, we need to use javascript to get the protocol and hostname. Example:

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://abreu.dev.dynamicweb.pt/Default.aspx?ID=1&PID=7&M=NewsV2&Action=1&NewsId=54&amp;t=MESÃO FRIO>Share in Facebook</a>

to achieve this I have to create Dw's URL like this:
URL = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.hostname + "< !--@News:Href-- >"

Having a domain tag would make it easy to create such links and prevent javascript usage (though I know sometimes you still need to use escape() for the javascript content).

example tag: DwDomain = "http://engage.dynamicweb-cms.com/"

Nuno