Re: MOS - Display Notes Directly
- From: Adric Norris <spikey.mcmarbles@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:52:56 -0600
Thanx, that information looks very helpful. :) I'm actually hoping to wrap
the various options into Firefox search engines (which are more easily
shared) at this point, instead of bookmarks... still need to identify a URL
for general searches, however.
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 23:42, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Adric,
>
> That URL is for a MOS or Metalink "note" or "document" only. There's
> one other major category, i.e. bugs. They use a different URL. See
> http://yong321.freeshell.org/oranotes/MOS.txt
> for both URLs for both Flash and HTML version of MOS. These different
> document (in general sense) subtypes seem to be differentiated by the
> digit after the dot (.1 for general notes, .5 for FAQs, etc).
>
> There's actually one other minor type of documents: attachments,
> with document type ATT. The URLs are like the following:
>
>
> https://supporthtml.oracle.com/ep/faces/secure/km/DownloadAttachment.jspx?attachid=75071.1:219081
>
> https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=ATT&id=75071.1:219081
>
> But of course it makes no sense to bookmark attachment URLs because
> they're always linked from their main documents.
>
> I wish there was a direct URL for a specific SR. Currently you can
> only open one SR window at a time and you can't open it in a new
> window.
>
> Yong Huang
>
> -----Original message-----
>
> Adric Norris wrote:
>
> To expand a bit upon Jared's information, those of us who browse via
> Firefox
> can easily turn this into a keyword search bookmark for easy access.
> - Create a bookmark in the usual manner, and set the URL to the
> following. This is simply what Jared provided with "%s" appended.
>
>
> https://supporthtml.oracle.com/ep/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=%s
>
> - Assign a short, easily remembered keyword such as "mos" to the entry.
> You might need to click on the arrow labeled More in order to see the
> keyword field.
>
> To see the beastie in action just type your selected keyword followed by
> the
> DocID of interest, for example "mos 746247.1", in the URL bar and press
> enter. You don't even have to signon to MOS first... you'll be directed to
> a logon page if necessary, after which the document comes up straightaway.
> Assuming that MOS is actually available, of course. :P
>
> This technique will almost certainly work for general (non-DocID) searches
> as well... we just need to identify the relevant URL.
>
>
>
>
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