Redirect and Refresh?

[calista]

I have a template that displays a table of IP addresses and additional information about that address. When the user clicks on an address, a new window opens with a form to edit one of the fields. When the user submits the form, he gets a success message and a button to close the window. OK, so far. What I want to happen is, when the user closes the form window, I want the first page to refresh, so that the user's changes are visible.

Here is a portion of my form window after the form has been processed:

<!--- Display sucess message to user. --->
<CFOUTPUT>
<FONT SIZE=&quot;+2&quot; COLOR=&quot;Green&quot;>
Thank you, #GetUser.PersonFirstName#!<BR><BR>
Your request has been processed.<BR>
</FONT>
</CFOUTPUT>

<form>
<input type=button value=&quot;Close Window&quot; onClick=&quot;javascript:window.close();&quot;>
</form>

How do I close the window, and refresh the first page? Thanks!
Calista :-X
Jedi Knight,
Champion of the Force

 

[pigsie]

This may work on the pop up page in a javascript block

<script language=&quot;javascript&quot; >

document.window.returnvalue = 'changed';

</script>

in the calling page:

<a onclick=&quot;if( window.open('youpage.cfm') returnvalue == 'changed' ) document.replace('pagetorefresh.cfm');&quot; >

something along those lines - i have code that does this at work if this doesnt work i'll have a look at it tommorow.

HTH

Kola

 

[Silvano]

try using opener property of the window object, e.g.:

window.opener.location.href = &quot;

http://...&quot;;

this will set the new location for the window object containing the open() method used to open the current window; take this one step further and you can do something like this:

window.opener.location.href = &quot;<cfoutput>#cgi.http_referer#</cfoutput>&quot;;


Sylvano
dsylvano@hotmail.com

 

[Guest_imported]

WWebSpider's got the right idea, I think.

If the popup window doesn't know the URL to set the location of the caller window to, it can determine it by getting the value of the current location for that window. Maybe this would work:

window.opener.location.href = window.opener.location.href;

Or, maybe you have to do this in two statements.