Frame loading and timing

[sqoti]

Has anybody ever experienced the following problem or something similar? If Yes, did you find a solution and can you share that solution?

Main Page is divided into frames. Left frame has menu items and right frame is main viewing area.

One selection from the menu brings up a popup window that is loaded with variables coming from the main page.

Once inside the popup window, the user can make inputs into forms and has various options of saving form information, canceling, exiting, closing window, back buttons, etc...

One of the popup windows is also divided into two frames, one on top and one on bottom.

Scenario 1: main popup window has a list of data(example employee data). One of the fields in this list is also a link to the divided popup window that loads on top of this window with more information on the particular employee.

The divided window loads and there are some buttons on the the top frame with options to save, print, and exit. Immediately before the frames have completely loaded, the user selects the back button. It goes back to the first window that had the list of employee data with the link, but this time there is no data, it is blank with only the headers. You can refresh the window manually and the list reappears. This is a problem I don't want the users to have and I don't want a timed refresh built into the page.

If you have any suggestions, I would be most appreciative.

 

[Jonax]

If this is done in ASP I think you can make it reload using the

response.expires=0

directive This is not a bug - it's an undocumented feature...
;-)

 

[sqoti]

Thanks for that hint. If you wouldn't mind can you tell me where the syntax goes. Does it go as a body onload or javascript, vbscript? I have never seen that block character, so I may need to figure that out too, or that a 0.

 

[Jonax]

It only works in Active Server Pages...
But then it goes at the top between <% and %>

But as I said it only works in ASP which means that you need a MS-server (MSIIS or PWS) - and that the file has to have the .asp extension... This is not a bug - it's an undocumented feature...
;-)