Output token values within body in Orchard CMS - orchardcms

I'm using Orchard CMS and I have a custom form that I want to redirect to a confirmation page after it has been submitted. On this page I would like to output some of the details from the submitted form.
To achieve this I am planning on setting up a workflow which performs a redirect action and passes specific form values through in the query string of the URL that it redirects to.
Is there a way to output these query string values from within the BodyPart of the page that I'm redirecting to? Can I embed tokens within the body of the page?
Is there an alternative method to achieve this using the built-in features of Orchard?

It appears that Orchard 1.9 will contain Orchard.Tokens.HtmlFilter within the Orchard.Tokens module.
1.9 is imminent, they are just checking it now. You can download the 1.x source. And I have also noticed a 1.9-int source, which is probably what they are using to prep 1.9 for distribution.
You should, with 1.9 (or 1.x or 1.9-int) be able to enable that feature and then do something like:
#{Content.Fields.MyForm.FirstName}
within the Body of a page (or content type with the BodyPart), for example.

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Liferay static url for dynamic data

I want to serve some data from an static url in Liferay. For example, say to serve a json containing the logged user from "http://server.com/whatever/user" so all the portlets in the proyect can read it. Right now I can do it with a portlet, but then I have to set the url with the configuration panel and I don't like that.
I've seen that I can put jsp files with the static content, but don't know how to access the information of session, users, etc.
Friendly urls seem to accomplish something similar but seem overly complicated and focused in getting a short easy url, something I don't care.
So, how can I get some internal data in an static url (I don't mind if it's friendly, long or short, but always the same) so every element of a Liferay proyect can read it?
FOURTH EDIT: Another way to put it...
In my eclipse I have this tree:
/whatever-war/docroot/html/fancy-porlet/list.jsp
How do I access that jsp in a browser without having to go the Liferay panel and putting the portlet in the menus of the web?
FIFTH EDIT: I haven't had the time to research any more, but I have this in my notes...
https://server/language/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=plid
This goes straight to the portlet, sometimes. plid comes from
PortalUtil.getPlidFromPortletId(themeDisplay.getScopeGroupId(), name_of_portlet_and_war)
It's no solution for me because, it doesn't always work. Sometimes you get a numeric identifier, sometimes you get a zero. I'd bet on the name of portlet and war being incorrect so it doesn't find the portlet, but then, how do you find the new name of the portlet? Sadly, I discarded the code where the name came from, but is coming from Liferay.
SIXTH EDIT: What I want to do is to be able to call a fixed url, with some data internal to Liferay, and get information based on that data back.
There are several aspects here:
Every portlet already has access to the user through a request attribute called ThemeDisplay:
ThemeDisplay themeDisplay = (ThemeDisplay) request.getAttribute(WebKeys.THEME_DISPLAY);
Check ThemeDisplay's interface for the various options that you have in order to get the current user's id or object.
You've asked about JSON delivery - this will need to go through Liferay and not (directly) through a JSP in your individual web application. The reason is that any request processed by Liferay will contain the user's information, but as any proper webapp, it's completely separate from any request directed at another webapp: Unless included by Liferay, your JSP will have a different session that has nothing to do with Liferay's session. (I hope this explanation makes sense)
If you write a servletFilter hook, you might not yet have the portal context initialized (Liferay 6.x has been a while for me, pardon for being vague here). If you're on the portlet side, you might have to do more than you expected.
One option that you have is to embed a portlet on every page, automatically (e.g. when it's deployed, it's available). You can configure a portlet to be automatically included on every page, it's done for the chat portlet, for example. That portlet does not need to have any UI, it just needs to expose its resourceURL, so that you can use it from everywhere.
However, I somehow doubt that you use it, given that every portlet has the information already at hand.
But I might also just not understand all of your requirements...

createSenderView url always goes to the tagging page vs. the prepare page

I am able to generate the “createSenderView” url just fine. But when I use the link, even with the “&send=0” parameter, I end up on the tagging page vs. the prepare page where I can upload more documents. Why?
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Below is a sample of the link that I'm generating.
https://demo.docusign.net/Member/StartInSession.aspx?StartConsole=1&t=8899b1c1-1946-40d1-b907-9dd989f64d68&DocuEnvelope=ccf36a3f-fce0-4a9a-bc6c-76b4d44d0d4f&send=0
Please note that this link has already been used.
send=1 and send=0 both work properly in the Classic UI as well as New DocuSign Experience.
I would double check you do not have "Use Advanced Sending" ticked on the tagging screen as it will override the URL parameter.

Liferay, include one web content in another web content

Let's say I have web content, which is a modal dialog. Now I want to be able to reuse this content in several other web contents. What is the easiest way to achieve this without copy modal code to each web content? JavaScript is allowed.
Web content is a modal dialog? I don't understand the usecase, thus it's hard to give proper sample code.
If you're aware of the ID of the other webcontent that you want to use, you can retrieve this content through the API, e.g. by writing structures/templates. Templates are able to access the API and render other articles. Some of the API is hidden from templates by default, but you can revert this - look for "restricted" in portal.properties
The WCM API is named after its formal name "Journal*", check the API, e.g. JournalArticleService.

Orchard CMS Editable Content on MVC Views

I'm working on an Orchard module for selling an e-book of sorts. Prior to purchase, a user can view a page showing a sample of the product. After purchase, there is no more need for the sample page, and the user has access to the full product.
I would like to set things up such that if a paying customer tries to access the sample page that they would be redirected to their full product and if a non-customer were to try to go to full product page they would be redirected to the sample. I'd also like my page content to be editable via the Dashboard.
My current implementation:
Controller handling the conditional routing / redirecting based on whether a purchase has been made.
A layer rule for each of my page url's each containing an html widget to provide the page content
This seems to work, but I am wondering what other options I have to accomplish this.
You may be making things way more complicated than they need to be.
Using widgets is unnecessary. It would be much better to build a regular content type and display that. You could serve it through a special controller that checks for a purchase, but even that is unnecessary. Instead, you could create a part that would have the purchase verification logic in its driver's display method. This way, you could even apply the exact same logic to any content type.

How to link to another liferay page

I'm trying to figure out how to link to another page within the same liferay site.
Obviously I could hardcode the url in my portlet's view but I'm worried about having to update all of my portlets in case the friendly url changes in the future.
I know the name of the page I'm trying to link to, but what if the page name changes too?
I've found infinity of classes that have methods that return friendlyUrls, such as PortalUtil, LayoutLocalServiceUtil, and even LayoutFriendlyURLLocalServiceUtil, but they all require parameters that I'm not sure how to obtain.
Is there a standard way of obtaining friendly urls in liferay?
If you want to link to another Page, you can either use LayoutId or friendly url names.
Both are unique for each companyId, so you are going to be pretty safe using them.
You can set the friendlyUrl as a PortletConfig parameters, so you can set them on portlet Level, and you won't have them hard-coded in your Portlet. Alternatively, you can also save them as custom params in portal-ext.properties (will apply for all portlets of that portal).
Now, that's a lot of code for this, so if you're dealing with specific problems, like creating Portlet Configuration or Reading portal-ext.properties, or creating renderUrls programatically, you should start new questions

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