Using Bricolage via External Dashboard

Hi everyone,

I'm working on developing a lightweight dashboard outside
bricolage,   
that gathers a list of stories via Soap request  
(Bric::Soap::Story::list_ids).   The goal here is to be able
to go  
directly to a story edit page within bricolage, from this  
dashboard.   I know of course, that linking to a URL that
would  
normally edit a page, the user gets kicked back to the
login, even if  
the user has already logged in.   Is there a way to directly
access  
such an edit story page by linking to it outside bricolage? 
Has this  
ever been done before?

I'd imagine it would have to do with manipulating the main
controller  
a bit.  Just wanted to get feedback from others who may have
done  
something like this before.

Thanks for your time

Paul

On Sep 13, 2006, at 10:22, Paul Kist wrote:

> I'm working on developing a lightweight dashboard
outside  
> bricolage,  that gathers a list of stories via Soap
request  
> (Bric::Soap::Story::list_ids).   The goal here is to be
able to go  
> directly to a story edit page within bricolage, from
this  
> dashboard.   I know of course, that linking to a URL
that would  
> normally edit a page, the user gets kicked back to the
login, even  
> if the user has already logged in.   Is there a way to
directly  
> access such an edit story page by linking to it outside
bricolage?   
> Has this ever been done before?

Be sure that the Window that opens the edit link URL in
Bricolage has  
the same name as the Bricolage Window. The window name is  
"Bricolage_SERVER_WINDOW_NAME", where
SERVER_WINDOW_NAME is the same  
as your VHOST_SERVER_NAME bricolage.conf directive with all
non- 
alphanumeric characters replaced with underscores (stupid
IE).

> I'd imagine it would have to do with manipulating the
main  
> controller a bit.  Just wanted to get feedback from
others who may  
> have done something like this before.

It hasn't been done that I know of, but I think that it's
just due to  
the window naming.

Best,

David