What is Direct Access URL (path aliasing)?

A direct access URL is an easy to read URL that users can enter to get to a specific item, document, page, category, or perspective in Oracle AS portal.

If you have a page group called mypagegroup. Within that page group you have a page called mypage and that page has a sub-page called mysubpage. If you navigate to mysubpage, the URL in your browser's location field will look something like the following:

http://my.company.com:7778/portal/page?_pageid=91,358983&_dad=portal&_schema=

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This is a rather complicated URL to pass on to another user, so instead, you can give the user the page's direct access URL, which will look something like the following:

http://mycompany.com:7778/pls/portal/url/page/myportal/mypage/mysubpage

A direct access URL for a page is as follows

http://<hostname>:<portnumber>/pls/<dad>/url/page/<pagegroupname>/<objectname>

Usage Examples:

To access the root page of a page group called mypagegroup: http://mycompany.com:7778/pls/portal/url/page/mypagegroup

To access a page called mypage at the top level of the mypagegroup page group: http://mycompany.com:7778/pls/portal/url/page/mypagegroup/mypage

To access a page called mysubpage, which is a sub-page of mypage: http://mycompany.com:7778/pls/portal/url/page/mypagegroup/mypage/mysubpage

To access a tab called mytab on the mypage page: http://mycompany.com:7778/pls/portal/url/page/mypagegroup/mypage/mytab

To access categories & sub-categories: http://mycompany.com:7778/pls/portal/url/page/mypagegroup/mycategory

http://mycompany.com:7778/pls/portal/url/page/mypagegroup/mycategory/mysubcategory

To access page templates & navigation pages::

http://mycompany.com:7778/pls/portal/url/page/mypagegroup/mytemplate

http://mycompany.com:7778/pls/portal/url/page/mypagegroup/mynavigationpage