diff -r 44569a7f8db0 -r 65e357e5eecb cms/app-client/app/helpers/abs-url-for.js
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/cms/app-client/app/helpers/abs-url-for.js	Tue Nov 22 18:33:07 2016 +0100
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+// inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/a/36368522
+
+import Ember from 'ember';
+import ENV from '../config/environment';
+
+export default Ember.Helper.extend({
+  router: Ember.computed(function() {
+    return Ember.getOwner(this).lookup('router:main');
+  }),
+
+  compute([routeName, ...routeParams]) {
+    let router = this.get('router');
+    let rootUrl = ENV.rootURL;
+
+    var resUrl = Ember.isEmpty(routeParams) ?
+      router.generate(routeName) : router.generate(routeName, routeParams[0]);
+    var location = window.location;
+    return  location.protocol + "//" + location.host + rootUrl + resUrl;
+  }
+});