How to create REST url for action on my page? - url

I've created a page for example http://sayhello.com and there's a form fe: http://sayhello/com/myform with fields yourname and yourtext and button yoursubmit. How can I create my REST url?
Thanks

You might want to read up on REST first and then provide some more details here about what server-side programming language and framework you are using.

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Updating autorout URL from C# code in ORCHAD CMS

I have built a simple website and have the requirement to display all post from a blog for a year.
For example www.mysite.com/blogs/2015 should display all posts of 2015.
However, this year is not the real creation date of the post but it is given as input while creating the post (I have added new field to the editor).
I should also have a way to access a post with a unique URL like www.mysite.com/blogs/2015/2, which should display the second post of 2015.
The post number is unique for the year. So I cannot use the content id.
I was able to make this work with my own controller, but an issue remains:
When posts are listed it will attach the URL created by the AutoroutePart, which will be like www.mysite.com/blogs/first-post.
I attempted to change this URL while creating the post by updating the Path property of the AutoroutePart but had no luck.
Any suggestions or advise are appreciated.
You can define you own route for any content item which has the AutoroutePart.
Example in you situation you need to edit the content definition of the blog posts. So under the Content Definition menu you select Blog Post, then edit, then you click on the expando arrow next to the Autoroute label and you'll see the Patterns field where you can define your own pattern.

Build URL Using GA Attributes

Good Day All
I am completely new to this type of query but is it possible to define a url on a button click on a page that populates the/a URL with information form the Google Tag stack? e.g. Campaign, Source etc?
Sorry for the vague question.
Here are the two method that you can use to create a GA Attributes tagged url
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en
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Update param and call action in controller on click?

I have been banging my head over this for the past 3 days (No kidding!!!)....It seems like a very simple thing but I am just unable to do it. So I'm putting the question out here, and am open to any method which would work.
BACKGROUND : An advanced search form on submission used to generate an URL too large for the server. So the form had to be submitted via POST. So far, so good. Form submitted successfully, and the result was displayed. Only remaining problem was pagination.
As it's a POST call, it ruled out will pagination. While will-pagination merges param page to the existing params, but the problem is that it shows on url which results in the same error.
QUESTION: So is there any way, if the user clicks a link NEXT, I can
a) Update the page param
b) Keep the existing params
c) While not changing the URL
d) Transfer control back to the action in controller?
The only solution so far suggested was have a hidden form, repopulate it's value and submit again. The form's pretty complex, so if there is a cleaner way I'd like to know.
I see what you want from your comment. So editing my reply accordingly. You want the information as to which column is being selected in the sort to be available to the controller without having that information available in the url string, and you want to use GET for this not POST
The challenge you have is that you want to preserve state between requests and you need a mechanism for doing this. POST preserves that information by sending it in the body of the POST request. GET does this by allowing you to populate the query string. The other method for preserving state is to use a cookie.
You can manipulate the url with javascript on the page. There are tutorials online for that.
But if you just want a simple controller hack as you say in your comment then the simplest one I can think of is to allow the user to make the GET request to the url with the query params in it, then handle this request in two steps - step one saves the query information to the cookie, step two redirects them to the url with that query string data stripped, and you look on the cookie to see if it has those fields before building your data for that page. It's hacky but it works.
def sort
session[:sort] = params[:sort]
redirect_to url_without_the_query_string
end
There is also the new html 5 feature:
window.history.replaceState(“Replace”, “Page Title”, “/mypage”);
from this stackoverflow answer here: How to remove query string from url using javascript
However I'm not sure I'd recommend messing with the url after load like that (I don't know enough about that solution so I'd recommend you read that answer and see if that fits). So, if you MUST lose that data from the url string, because you need to somehow pass it between requests you either have to use POST, or use the session cookie/redirect method I describe above.
Does your html <form> have an action attribute? If not, add one that points to the page.
If you want to preserve the current GET params so that results from the POST can use , you will also need to modify the javascript triggered on the heading links so that as well as (or instead of) modifying the query string, they write the same data to hidden form fields (which of course then get posted in the body of the request). Your JS library may already include helpful functions for that.

Auto Search functionality for Schools/Universities using Asp.Net MVC

I am building a website where the user should have the capability of adding their School/University. I have noticed in LinkedIn, when i tried to type in my school name , it showed up a auto search box with all the schools, beginning with the letter i typed. How can i achieve the same functionality?
Do they save all the Universities in their database ? Or is there any Open webservices i can use that will show all the Schools/Universities ?
Thanks !
This feature is called "Auto Complete" and the text boxes are enabled with that. These allow you to filter the data required according to the characters you type in.
Please see this post for auto-complete feature implemented using jQuery.
Razor: Auto-complete text box inside jqGrid, How to bind values?
The example shown in that page lists all from the database. However, as a next phase, you can as well extend this feature to look for a WCF exposed service for universe of schools/colleges.
FYI" "GetSkillNameAutocomplete" is a method in the controller that takes a string parameter as an input (the search string) and gets the value(s).
Hope this helps!

Salesforce Create Buttons and Links option - Custom URL to launch email template

I have an email template that I would like to launch from within the case using a Link/Button. I see the option under setup->customize->cases->button and links I even see where I need to place the URL. What I don't see is nay documentation on how to build the URL to launch an email template. Any help you be great
I don't know if this is documented anywhere by salesforce, but I found from some guess work:
/_ui/core/email/author/EmailAuthor?p3_lkid={!Case.Id}&p2_lkid={!Case.ContactId}&template_id=00X40000000weWn
Just use that as the url content of a custom button or link. This one is for cases, as you are trying to do, but I think this should work for other types of objects as well.
The parameters are p3_lkid, which is the case id, p2_lkid which is the id of the contact you are emailing, and template_id which is hardcoded to the desired email template. (You can find this id by looking in the url of the Setup page for the template)
This was really helpful. I did, however, figure out another way to do it. Click on the "Send an Email" button you currently have. Copy the URL and add &template_id=YOUR TEMPLATE ID.
There is one other ID number that will show up in the original URL. Change that to be the dynamic field you want it to be.
For example:
Copy url from "Send Email": https://na3.salesforce.com/_ui/core/email/author/EmailAuthor?p3_lkid=70150000000Axj1&retURL=%2F70150000000Axj1
Add &template_id=YOUR TEMPLATE ID so it looks like this:
/_ui/core/email/author/EmailAuthor?p3_lkid=70150000000Axj1&retURL=%2F70150000000Axj1&template_id=YOUR TEMPLATE ID
Remove the other id (it's the object you used to send the email - so in this case, I was wanting to be able to send an email directly from a Campaign) and replace with the dynamic field:
/_ui/core/email/author/EmailAuthor?p3_lkid={!Campaign.Id}&retURL=%2F70150000000Axih&template_id=YOUR TEMPLATE ID
And voila! It should work!
Abeyer's answer is good. However, if the template contains solution attachments "{!Case.Solution_Attachments}" the attachments will not get included unless you add the new_template=1 parameter to the URL making it:
/_ui/core/email/author/EmailAuthor?p3_lkid={!Case.Id}&p2_lkid={!Case.ContactId}&template_id=00X40000000weWn&new_template=1

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