Set Session variable from the frames page

[netangel]

Maybe I should place this post in HTML forum, but here it goes:

My ASPX pages are opened in a frames page. I want to have a url to that frames page (to open from other page or e-mail message) that forces some session variables to have certain values, in order to open the right pages inside the frames page.

This means that when I click a link to my page, I want it to be something like this:
w w w . m y s e r v e r . d e f a u l t . h t m <- this is my frames page
I want the Session(&quot;Action&quot to be set 'ListClients'. This session variable opens the ListClients.aspx page into the main frame of default.htm.

Even if I send querystring arguments, I can't reach them, as the htm page can't read them.

I really need the frames page to be opened with the right page.



NetAngel

 

[link9]

It doesn't have to be html. I have a project that uses a dynamic frameset w/ an .asp page.

I have to tell you before you get going on this, though, that I HIGHLY recommend trying to avoid this technique, especially if the number and size of frames change based on criteria. Communicating between frames in a dynamic site is just more trouble than it's worth, it's a maintenance nightmare, and most times, you can achieve a very workable design w/o frame use.

That being said, this is what my frameset looks like on that page, which could easily be adapted to an .aspx page, rather than .asp.

<frameset rows=&quot;95,*,43&quot; frameborder=&quot;NO&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; framespacing=&quot;0&quot;> 
<frame name=&quot;topFrame&quot; scrolling=&quot;NO&quot; noresize src=<%call determineTopSource%>>
<frame name=&quot;mainFrame&quot; src=&quot;choose.asp&quot;>
<frame name=&quot;bottomFrame&quot; scrolling=&quot;NO&quot; noresize src=<%call determineBottomSource%>>

so then you just declare the two subs, determineTopSource & determineBottomSource -- base those decisions off of your session variables, and return a string to the caller... ie. the name of the page to be loaded into that frame.

my main frame is actually redirected by that page, choose.asp -- it's a very complicated redirect routine, which is why I just decided to put it on another page... but you could use the same method for the main page that I used to determine the top & bottom if you wanted to.

hth!
paul