Luminis Portal Icon, Need to have a simple <a href=..> For the Icon

Hello everyone. I have setup icons at the top of our Luminis web portal page which link to Web Study, an external web site for online courses and test taking. Unfortunately when users use Web Study for a test or something that takes a while, Luminis times out and then closes the Web Study window because we don't have Web Study setup through SSO. Is it possible to just have an a href link to web study through our icon at the top of the portal instead of using the standard nested-tables.xsl method of having an icon generated? We want the icon to open the link in a blank target window so it is treated as a separate entity from Luminis and not closed out when Luminis times out. Any other ideas on solving the timeout issue besides increasing the Luminis timeout intervals or setting up SSO would be appreciated. We need an immediate fix. Thanks!

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I solved our timeout issue by simply putting an a href="linktoexternalapp" target="_blank" ..etc... in the channel.xsl file. Now the external app launches independently of Luminis in a new browser window or tab depending on your browsers default settings. When Luminis times out and logs out, the external application is still running.