Passing Back Varible Values From a POP-Up Window To The Parent Window.

[hodgesp]

I have an ASP page form that will be used for data entry. I am redoing a MS-Access Runtime application that has been used for a few years.

One of the issues; "What to do about the conditional visibility code" I had set on several of my Form objects.

What happens is, based on what value the user selects from a drop down box; additional fields would become visible requiring input. What I came up with in ASP was a POP-Up Window.

I got the window working by downloading some code from a tech site and I set up a "Switch” statement to conditionally the POP-Up window's initiation.
I set up users input fields and I tested it and it works fine.

The PROBLEM:

With the Parent window still open, how can I pass the values from the POP-UP back into it for use?
I mean without closing the Parent Window and Losing all the data values entered in the previous form fields. How do I set it up so that when a user submits the Parent window data the POP-Up values go with it? I've have tried the standard POST Method but the Parent can not see the POP-UP window Form Field values.



Any help would be appreciated, Thank You Very Many!

 

[vbkris]

in the popup window 'window.opener' command is equal to window command in parent 'window'

so u could use:
opener.document.FormName.HiddenFiled.value="ASD"

will set a hidden field called HiddenField in the parent window's value to "ASD"...

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[hodgesp]

Could you be more specific please. I assume that window.opener is javascript. I'm not very knowledgeable about that language as yet.

Thank you....

 

[vbkris]

yes its javascript...

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