How to get URL parameters in SAP Screen Personas

[awguthrie]

Greetings,

How do I access the URL parameters inside the Screen Personas flavor?

The goal is to call a flavor by the URL while including some additional values as parameters.

The parameters come back empty when using plain JavaScript, and I don't see any references to the URL parameters from any of the Screen Personas scripting objects.

Personas version 3.17

I saw this thread, but found no solution:
https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-q-a/how-to-access-browser-url-parameters-in-personas-flavor-...

Thank you

[vananko]

Yes,

SAP Screen Personas scripting doesn't have any objects to operate with URL. 
BUT you can use Javascript and window object to retrieve needed parameter. 

Try this:

/* globals console, window, URLSearchParams */
const params = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
console.log(params.get('sap-theme'));

If this doesn't work for you, search similar solution.

Best Regards!

[awguthrie]

Thank you for the reply. This doesn't seem to work, the problem is that it comes back empty:

[vananko]

For me similar URL works. So just check what happens with "window.location", then "window.location.search" and so on.

Maybe you are using not supported browser.

There is an example:

[awguthrie]

Thanks for that screenshot. I've tested with the latest version of Chrome and Edge, so not sure what is happening. For comparison, I created a basic HTML file with the JavaScript and it worked successfully, the parameters are fully visible. On the Personas page, the window.location.href string ends with 'personas#'.

[awguthrie]

Can you tell me what version of Personas are you using in that screenshot?

[vananko]

This example is pure javascript and related to browser features. This shouldn't depend on Personas version. If there is a url address with provided url parameter, then it should work. When you have "https://.../sap/bc/personas" only, then there are no parameters to get.