Disable external links on Portal ie...google

Are you commenting out (or removing) the entire ITEM tag (and not just the URL)?
Are you restarting the web server?

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Thanks John ~ I had thought that I restarted the web server, but to be sure I restarted it again and now, with some minor tweeking, the code changes seem to be OK.

The other thing that probably would have worked is an IOSCacheRefresh servlet call. The Profile servlet returns role-file data that your servlet container cached in it's memory; Portal stores this information in a JavaScript object that is used by the DHTML that builds the page layout. IOSCacheRefresh updates this data, among other things (such as data from the logan product line).

Don't quote me on the details, because I'm working from memory rather than doing the sensible thing and looking at the code.

Since Wendy mentioned modifying default.xml, I assumed she's doing this for all users, so it's not a role-specific modification; therefore web server restart would be required rather than IOSCacheRefresh.

John, I was prepared to conceed this point to you, except that I just tried it with default.xml, and I was able to see a change without a reboot.

Mind you, I've now looked at decompiled code for the IOSCacheRefresh and Profile servlets, and I could swear that the IOSCacheRefresh request shouldn't do anything with roles files or be necessary. A Profile servlet request ought to simply read in, from the file system, the contents of the correct role file. Yet I couldn't see any of my changes until I made the IOSCacheRefresh request. I even made certain that my browser was actually doing the request and getting a response, rather than simply working with cached files.

Whatever. I did warn you not to quote me on the details.

I made the assumption that Wendy was running IIS, and that it would probably be cached. In any event, it's working for her now, which is the important part.

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John