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This section is intended for portal designers and documents how to construct a Generation 2 Software Request Portal (Gen2 SRP).

You must have Administrative access in order to perform the functions in this section.

The Gen2 SRP is designed to leverage much of the MIE's infrastructure that was built for the Gen1.  It was designed to be more flexible than Gen1 in many respects, and to highly leverage Ajax call-backs as opposed to post-backs.

The entire portal template is maintained in the catch point screen record, as was the case for the Gen1 portal.  The template, however, is not backwards compatible with the Gen1 portal.  Additionally, the page that services the Gen2 portal is different than the Gen1 page.  The Gen1 portal was really just a clever extension of the MIE's catch point screen capability, which is serviced by the catchpoint.asp page.  The Gen2 portal was purpose-built as a software request portal and is serviced by the requestsoftware.aspx page.  Both pages accept the same encrypted querystring (S=<encrypted data>).  Both pages will display an empty white screen if any part of the encrypted data in the query string is incorrect or missing.