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Q: How to submit form in pop-up window and forward parent results page?

Hi all.

(Caveat: this might actually turn out to be a Javascript question):

I would appreciate any help or even alternatives to what I'm trying to 
achieve below:-

Here's a rough sequence of what I'm trying to achieve...

(1) My app has a page displaying an item link.

(2) When the user clicks on the link a pop-up browser window appears 
with a form containing all the details about that item.

(3) After modifying the item's details the user clicks on the form 
Submit button.

(4) The Submit action saves the changes to the database.

(5) The pop-up windows closes.

(6) The original, parent page 'refreshes' to reflect the changes the 
user made in the pop-up windows (e.g. changing the name of the item 
under the link).

I can get as far as step (4) using Struts and Javascript handlers.

Here's how my parent pops-up the item editing window:
----------

<% String link = "javascript:popUp('"+
     request.getContextPath()+
     /editItem.do?action=edit&item="+
     itemID + "');";
%>
. . .
<td><html:link href="javascript:;" onclick="<%=link%>">
     <c:out value="Edit Item"/></html:link>
</td>

----------


Here's the form element of my pop-up:
----------

<% String submitScript = "form.submit();
     opener.location='"+
     request.getContextPath()+
     "/showItemDetails.do';"+
     "self.close();";
%>
. . .
<html:form action="/saveItem" onsubmit="<%=submitScript%>">

----------


So I'm submitting the form, telling the parent to forward to the results 
page ('/showItemDetails.do') and closing the pop-up.

But it doesn't work that way:-(

The submission works fine; the data is written to the DB.  But the 
pop-up browser window doesn't close and the parent isn't forwarded to 
the results page.  So I guess once a form is submitted the rest of the 
Javascript just 'disappears' and isn't executed?

Any help out there..?

Many thanks in advance!

-- 
bOOyah


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RE: How to submit form in pop-up window and forward parent results page?

Posted by Anirudh Jayanth <an...@sysarris.soft.net>.
The javascript for the submit in the popup window could be something
like this
opener.parent.document.forms[0].action="Action.do";
opener.parent.document.forms[0].submit();


Anirudh Jayanth
SysArris Software 
120A, Elephant Rock Road, 
3rd Block, Jayanagar, 
Bangalore - 560011 
Tel: 6655165 / 052 [ ext - 244 ] 
anirudh.j@sysarris.soft.net 


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Subject: Q: How to submit form in pop-up window and forward parent
results page?


Hi all.

(Caveat: this might actually turn out to be a Javascript question):

I would appreciate any help or even alternatives to what I'm trying to 
achieve below:-

Here's a rough sequence of what I'm trying to achieve...

(1) My app has a page displaying an item link.

(2) When the user clicks on the link a pop-up browser window appears 
with a form containing all the details about that item.

(3) After modifying the item's details the user clicks on the form 
Submit button.

(4) The Submit action saves the changes to the database.

(5) The pop-up windows closes.

(6) The original, parent page 'refreshes' to reflect the changes the 
user made in the pop-up windows (e.g. changing the name of the item 
under the link).

I can get as far as step (4) using Struts and Javascript handlers.

Here's how my parent pops-up the item editing window:
----------

<% String link = "javascript:popUp('"+
     request.getContextPath()+
     /editItem.do?action=edit&item="+
     itemID + "');";
%>
. . .
<td><html:link href="javascript:;" onclick="<%=link%>">
     <c:out value="Edit Item"/></html:link>
</td>

----------


Here's the form element of my pop-up:
----------

<% String submitScript = "form.submit();
     opener.location='"+
     request.getContextPath()+
     "/showItemDetails.do';"+
     "self.close();";
%>
. . .
<html:form action="/saveItem" onsubmit="<%=submitScript%>">

----------


So I'm submitting the form, telling the parent to forward to the results

page ('/showItemDetails.do') and closing the pop-up.

But it doesn't work that way:-(

The submission works fine; the data is written to the DB.  But the 
pop-up browser window doesn't close and the parent isn't forwarded to 
the results page.  So I guess once a form is submitted the rest of the 
Javascript just 'disappears' and isn't executed?

Any help out there..?

Many thanks in advance!

-- 
bOOyah


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