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[lakeside12]

Hello
Thank you for all your help and patience with me as a newbie, I am very very grateful

ok
I have a javascript function called update(); in FORM_A.html

The user has hit the submit button on FORM_A.html and is now on FORM_B.html

So there are 2 windows open FORM_A.html & FORM_B.html

QUESTION:

How do I now run function Update() which is in FORM_A.html and have it affect only FORM_A.html. lets say it was a refresh function, and I only want to refresh FORM_A.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Many Thanks

 

[vacunita]

That will depend on how Form B was opened. If you used something like window.open then FormB's window is a child of FormA's and can address its parent.

window.opener.functionname();

This will execute the function within the parent's scope.



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[lakeside12]

Hi

Thanks for reply, I am not sure if it is a child window, Form_A.html is a standard html form with

<form name='frm'   target=_blank action="[URL unfurl="true"]https://www....>[/URL]
...
...
....and a submit button
<input type="image" value="Send" src="[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.xyz.jpg">[/URL]

Can you advise me as I am nit sure if this is a child or just another form

Many thanks

 

[vacunita]

Yeah that should work too. You can address the FormA from FormB like above.

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[lakeside12]

Hi

Thanks for your reply, ok I got a message in the browser (bottom left icon) that says Permission denied.

The function I am trying to run in Form_A.html basically reloads the form URL

	   window.location.replace('[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.newurlhere')[/URL]

It is still in the same website, I just need to change the contents of the window. Basically when Form_A.html gets submitted successfully I want to change the contents of that window even though the user has now progressed to form_B.html. I was hoping replace URL would do the trick as it looks very easy and simple to implement.

Please advise if there is a way around the permission issue or a simple way to change the URL of the Window in Form_A.html from Form_B.html

Many thanks

 

[vacunita]

I don't get any such an error in FF nor IE8.

<script>
function myfunc(myParam){
window.location.replace('[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.server.com/windowa.html');[/URL]
}
</script>

and in form B

<script>
function call_func_from_winA(param){
window.opener.myfunc(param);
}
</script>

Is there any other code that may be changing the page formA is in?



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Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

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[lakeside12]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply and for testing it, I did get it to work as well by putting the code in Form_A.html and and executing the function on the MouseUpEvent works perfectly in IE but surprisingly not in FF I did see an error message in that shield very bottom left and it said:

Message: 'window.opener' is null or not an object
Line: 339
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI:

https://www.myurl.com

this is my code is there a mistake in it you can see

<script type="text/JavaScript">
	function loadnewform()
	 {
	  var MyURL = "Form_A.html?zipcode=" ;
   	  MyURL = MyURL + document.getElementById("zipcode").value ;	
	  window.location.replace(MyURL )
	 }
</script>

Many Thanks

 

[vacunita]

1. Where is the loadnewform() function located? In the page with FormA or FormB?

2. How are you calling this function?

Show me a bit more code, than isolated snippets, as it makes it hard to understand the flow.





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Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

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