About Web.Show_Document() method 2

[Cantor]

Hello,

I use the Web.Show_document('My_URL', '_TARGET') in a form to call some reports located on a web server. I always use the target '_BLANK' to open my documents in a new web browser and it works well.

My problem is when I want to open more than one document in a row. I call Web.Show_document() four times with different URLs so I expect that four new web browsers will open, but it not so simple. Only one browser window opens with four documents within. So I must use the BACK button from IE to navigate between my documents. Is there a way to open four new different web browsers ?

Additional infos:
- All documents are in .PDF format
- I use Win XP
- The form calls the Web.Show_document() method from a pll library

Thanks,
Cantor

 

[pgirl]

It sounds as though the form is not picking up the word '_Blank' as a keyword, and is instead naming the new window.

Then when you recall the method, it's inserting into the named window.

In this way, you could say target="one" and it will open a new window, but then always insert into the same window.

I'm not aware of a logged fault that implies this, but if you are hard coding your report requests, you could try just putting different targets into the call

web.show_document('first.pdf', 'one')
web.show_document('second.pdf', 'two')

or even try using a variable to hold an incremental value and insert that variable into the target (without the literal string quotes).


Hope this helps.