Plenty of problems using external tabs

[eagoetz]

It has been pointed out that using external tabs reveals quite a number of issues.

Here is an example of a summary page that is trying to pull in an external summary page.

• The "external page" we want to include: https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~ansel.neunzert/temp/fscan-tab-example/page-to-include/day/20200101/ generated with configuration file https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~ansel.neunzert/temp/fscan-tab-example/page-to-include/day/20200101/pagetoinclude.ini
• The "main page" we want to start from: https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~ansel.neunzert/temp/fscan-tab-example/start-page/day/20200303/ generated with configuration file https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~ansel.neunzert/temp/fscan-tab-example/start-page/day/20200303/startpage.ini

Starting with the "external page", it actually looks pretty ok, we don't really see any problems here.

However, the "main page" is where things start to go wrong.

• The image linking fails. It tries to link to https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~ansel.neunzert/temp/fscan-tab-example/start-page/day/20200101/example.png, when it should be linking to https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~ansel.neunzert/temp/fscan-tab-example/page-to-include/day/20200101/example.png -- i.e., it changes the parent directory in a very weird way. The code replace the parent directory that was specified in the ini file with the parent directory of the page currently being generated (the main page, here called start-page)
• Other problems are visible on the page, like showing the embedded html for image overlay as content in this page. Perhaps this is caused by generating a page using gwsumm and then trying to bring that page in as an external tab using gwsumm
• Neither of the overlay buttons work

[eagoetz]

It turns out this has a lot to do with adding in the custom success and failure javascript that removes the header and footer information to embed the page in the main summary page. This also can change the image linking. Basically an external page is not just a matter of pointing to the page, you have to fix up the "import" using javascript functions. This can be seen especially in the detchar.ini configuration file.