Navigating pages with in a single Portlet

[John Lincoln]

Hi,

I have single portlet which has five pages, which on a page in the portal.
This portlet which has 5 pages has "back" and "next" button.

How this can be done?

This is how i am thinking it would work

<Form method=post name="Form2" action="<portlet:actionURL/>">
 
<input type="submit"  value="Next" "> 
 
<input type="submit" value="Back" >
</Form>

I will have 2 submit buttons, and when particular button click is clicked i would set one hidden value with onclick and collect them in processAction and control the navigation.

Just want to know if anyone has tried this

Thanks

[Avishek Banerjee]

This will work. You better create a renderURL, because other than forwarding requests to JSP, this portlet would do no processing. In the doView() method you can create a if-else or switch hierarchy and depending on the flag forward the request to the respective JSP

[Avishek Banerjee]

Also, ensure that you set the flag value in the session and depending on the button click, keep manipulating it. I suggest make this flag a counter and the count may map to the page number (1-5).