constructing a service list (with URLs)

[Cantor, Scott]

On 11/1/13, 4:09 PM, "Don Faulkner" <donf at uark.edu> wrote:

>We¹re trying to dynamically generate a web page that acts as a directory
>of services that our campus IdP supports. Has anyone built something
>similar?

Not exactly, but I use scripts to generate my local metadata and I
recently added a second stream that generates a CSV file for our help desk
that enumerates vhosts and support contacts.

So not the same, but conceptually what I output with the scripts is
largely arbitrary.

>We want to focus on campus services primarily, but eventually also
>provide a list of federation services we use as well. The MDUI extension
>provides most of what we want, but we want the entries to be clickable,
>so the the links have to point the user to the Entry URL (if that¹s the
>right term) for each service, and it feels wrong semantically to use the
>InformationURL for this purpose.

No, but there's nothing exactly on that level. The RequestInitiation
extension element doesn't really capture that exactly unless by entry URL
you mean "how to invoke a login".

-- Scott