Simple Fix?

[jepeace]

Hey all,

I've created a Sharepoint Portal Server for one of my company's products. Here is the url:

http://emesaportal.activagroup.com

You'll notice that if you hover over "Safety" or "Maintenance" and select a link, that you will be taken to another page within the portal. In the upper-right hand corner, is "Up to eMESA." If you click that you're taken back to the main portal page. Now this is where the problem is: See the dual scroll bars to the left?

This is caused because the main page is a "Web Page Viewer" web part. Think of it as a page displaying within a page. If you repeat the steps above over, you'll get more and more scroll bars showing up.

What I need to know is if there is some form of javascript function that, when a link is clicked, it updates the parent window. What it is doing right now is updating the child window that is "inside" the parent window. If I keep it this way, it will continue to tile on top of itself. Any help out there???

 

[jepeace]

Excuse me. The multiple scroll bars are on the right, not the left.

 

[cLFlaVA]

how is that link being created? i don't see the source.



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[jepeace]

Which link? The one in the drop down menu? Or the "Up to emesa" link??

 

[cLFlaVA]

up to mesa.

you might want to try setting the target of the link to "_top". while this is not XHTML compliant, it doesn't seem you're using XHTML compliance anyway.



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[jepeace]

Unfortunately I cannot edit the "up to emesa" link because it is a sharepoint portal server web part, and would involve editing over 1000 .aspx files. So my only hope is to edit the links in the javascript drop down.

Would a simple (Target="_parent") inside the <a href=""> cause it to load the next page in the parent window, and not in the child window?

 

[cLFlaVA]

using a target of "_top" will "break through" any frames and load the url as if it's a new page.

i don't see how that would help the links on your next page though.



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[jepeace]

It will. The link on the next page is exactly this:

http://emesaportal.activagroup.com

Which will bring me back to the main page. What you see when you get there is actually a different web page being displayed inside a frame. When you click the links in the drop down, it is updating the frame, not the actual window

 

[1DMF]

what the heck is 'name.dll' it wants to install, activeX component - agghhh , run away ;-)

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

 

[jepeace]

Are you on crack lol? It has never prompted me nor any other user to run a .dll. And if it does, it must be a windows sharepoint services component.

 

[1DMF]

no i'm not on crack, run out, are you offering ;-)

i'll give you a screen shot if you like!

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

 

[1DMF]

just checked again - yup it's the forum page , sharepoint services.

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

 

[jepeace]

Hmm... how odd. I wonder what it is??? Wonder why nobody at my company, nor or clients have ever been prompted. Where do you get the request to install? At the main portal page?

 

[jepeace]

I have a custom forum web part in that page, must be prompting you for that...

 

[1DMF]

http://emesaportal.activagroup.com/default.aspx

it appears in that lovely infobar below the address bar telling me about dodgy geezers, with dodgy sites, trying to get me to install dodgy plugins!

Well it did say it was a Microsoft Corporation plugin!

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

 

[jepeace]

Ahhhh, well if it's Microsoft, you probably don't want it anyways It'll periodically make your computer restart for no reason whatsoever and then give you blue screens just for fun

 

[jepeace]

I bet it's because you don't have flash or it's not updated. I run flash on the website.

 

[1DMF]

nope , actually I didn't have flash until last week, and downloaded the latest version this monday, as I'm strugling to get a PowerPoint Presentation on our website and so was using OpenOffice to convert to SWF -> only the quality sucks when converting PPT to OpenOffice, so I'm a bit stumped on that one at present.

But I digress, it's not flash, it specifically says it's an MS plugin called name.dll , I've got WinXP SP2 and all the latest updates, but as if that means my install isn't corrupt - lol

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.