open new browser window with button link on datagrid 1

[impulse24]

I have a webform where a user enters data in some field and a datagrid is populated with the results of the query. The datagrid contains 6 bound columns with values from a database. There is one button column which contains a view link.

When the user clicks the view link I am running a separate procedure to encrypt a url string with values from the grid. I dont want to run the procedure until the user actually clicks the link.

I then am using response.redirect with the encrypted url to go to a new site

Below is the code that is working currently:

Sub LinkClicked(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DataGridCommandEventArgs)
If e.CommandName = "View" Then
Dim buttonColumn As TableCell = e.Item.Cells(1)
Dim SSNColumn As TableCell = e.Item.Cells(10)
Dim SSN As String
SSN = SSNColumn.Text
URLtoFWd = "

https://test.com/"

URLtoencrypt="userid=test&password=test1&key1=SSN|" & SSN
EncryptedURL = encrypt(urltoencrypt)
Response.Redirect(URLtoFWd + encryptedurl)
End IF
End Sub

I want to open the url above in a new window. I think I need to use javascript, but am not sure how I can pass it the variable URL.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[mmaz]

instead of response.redirect, try:

Response.Write("<script language = javascript>window.open('" & URLtoFWd & "?" & encryptedurl & "'); </script>")

 

[impulse24]

thanks so much mmaz, it worked like a charm. didnt know response.write did anything other than display on the current page.

 

[jbenson001]

Yeah that is cool, I just tested it. Never knew that could work.