Opening 2 new browser windows from a HTML page

[guestAsh]

Hi,

in my nav bar im linking to a web app on my companies intranet. im currently using:

<li class="lhnav"><a class="speciallink" href="javascript:drilldown('com.walker.ebuyer.WkrEbuyerProductClassificationHandler','OF')">I
want to buy this...</a> </li>

which uses some java script to go to a specific page in the web app, this works fine if i have the app running in the background.

but if it's not, then the user is just sent to the web apps start page.

what i need is some kind of code that fires open a new browser to start the web app and then the URL above.

i hope this is clear %-)and i hope someone can help!

thanks
Ash

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Without seeing your drilldown function it would be hard to say for sure, but you should be able to modify it to use "window.open" to open a new window.

Hope this helps,
Dan

 

[guestAsh]

thanks.

here's the function.
<!-- start of javascript hiding
function wkrSubmit() {
if (wkrSubmit.arguments.length > 0) {
document.form1.handler.value = wkrSubmit.arguments[0];}
if (wkrSubmit.arguments.length > 1) {
document.form1.listCurrentPage.value = wkrSubmit.arguments[1];
}else{
document.form1.listCurrentPage.value = "";}
if (wkrSubmit.arguments.length > 2) {
document.form1.listEndItem.value = wkrSubmit.arguments[2];
}else{
document.form1.listEndItem.value = "";}
if (wkrSubmit.arguments.length > 3) {
document.form1.listUniqueKey.value = wkrSubmit.arguments[3];
}else{
document.form1.listUniqueKey.value = "";}
if (wkrSubmit.arguments.length > 4) {
document.form1.listSortKey.value = wkrSubmit.arguments[4];
}else{
document.form1.listSortKey.value = "";}
if (wkrSubmit.arguments.length > 5) {
document.form1.listSortField.value = wkrSubmit.arguments[5];
}else{
document.form1.listSortField.value = "";}
if (wkrSubmit.arguments.length > 6) {
document.form1.listSortDir.value = wkrSubmit.arguments[6];
}else{
document.form1.listSortDir.value = "";}
if (wkrSubmit.arguments.length > 7) {
document.form1.listBrowseDirection.value = wkrSubmit.arguments[7];
}else{
document.form1.listBrowseDirection.value = "";}
if (wkrSubmit.arguments.length > 8) {
document.form1.listRunningTotal.value = wkrSubmit.arguments[8];
}else{
document.form1.listRunningTotal.value = "";}
document.form1.submit();
}
function drilldown() {
document.form1.handler.value = drilldown.arguments[0];
document.form1.commodityGroupCode.value = drilldown.arguments[1];
document.form1.listCurrentPage.value = "";
document.form1.listEndItem.value = "";
document.form1.listUniqueKey.value = "";
document.form1.listSortKey.value = "";
document.form1.listSortField.value = "";
document.form1.listSortDir.value = "";
document.form1.listBrowseDirection.value = "";
document.form1.listRunningTotal.value = "";
document.form1.submit();
}
function openWin(newURL) {
window.open(newURL,toolbar='no',width=700,height=500,directories='no',scrollbars
='yes',resizable='yes',menubar='no',titlebar='yes');
}
// end javascript hiding -->
</script>

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

The first thing I'd do is to fix the major issues with your openWin function. You're missingthe "window name" parameter, and have no quotes around your arguments parameter:

function openWin(newURL) {
	window.open(newURL, 'yourWindowName', 'width=700,height=500,scrollbars,resizable,titlebar');
}

To get your drilldown function to open in a new window (presumably you want it to open in a window created by the openwin function)... First, you could open the new window:

openWin('about:blank');

This will create a new window with a name of "yourWindowName" (you can change this in the openWin function, obviously). Then give your form a target of "yourWindowName", and call drilldown. This should open the form in the newly created window.

Hope this helps,
Dan