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    close child UX after submit & refresh parent

    I'm sure I'm overlooking something obvious, but stuck anyway...

    I have a simple UX that displays a record, a button on it opens up a child UX that is an essentially an edit dropdown window for some associated detail. Submit button on the child saves data back to a bound table via standard action scripting. Works fine. Now I just want the child UX to close itself after a successful submit, but just can't get it to close.

    In the "Save Submitted Data to Tables" action script there is a client-side event "After save succeeded Javascript" which seems like it would be the most appropriate place to simply use the .CloseContainerWindow(this) method to close the window. Problem is "this" no longer points to an element in the UX (like it usually does following a button click). I'm reluctant to write JS in the child UX that relies on the child having a specific ID, as I plan to call this child from multiple possible parent UXs, so don't want to have to explicitly name the child.

    I must be missing something obvious. How hard can it be to get a dialog box to just close! As a bonus, I'd like the child to tell the parent to refresh itself to reflect the change. Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Thanks & cheers!

    #2
    Re: close child UX after submit & refresh parent

    How are you opening your child UX... what action are you using?

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      #3
      Re: close child UX after submit & refresh parent

      Button click event on parent uses action javascript "Open a UX Component" to open child. Default alias is used.
      Thanks.

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        #4
        Re: close child UX after submit & refresh parent

        if you look at the page that has the
        afterDialogValidate function and scroll down they discuss how to close the window where the dialog is hosted

        Code:
        var ele = $('mywindowid');
        	{dialog.object}.closeContainerWindow(ele);
        do you want to try that?

        ps:
        I noticed that you said something about not name the window name in child but the method discussed is from the calling dialog, is that ok with you?
        thanks for reading

        gandhi

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          #5
          Re: close child UX after submit & refresh parent

          As Govindan points out... the method for closing the child window is documented at the end of afterDialogValidate.

          '-------------------Closing the Window in Which the Dialog is Hosted -------------------------
          'In many cases the Dialog will have been opened in a pop-up Ajax window and you will want code in this event handler to close the pop-up window.
          'Here is how you can do this:
          'a) In the action that opens the Dialog in a window, set the Window title to something like this: MyWindowTtitle<span id="mywindowid"></span>
          'b) In this event handler set e.javascript to:
          ' var ele = $('mywindowid');
          ' {dialog.object}.closeContainerWindow(ele);

          'NOTE: If you have used Server-side Action Scripting in this event to save the submitted data to a table, then you might want to reference
          'the rtc.flagRecordWasSaved variable (which is set by the Action Script) to decide if the window should be closed or not. In addition, since the
          'Server-side Action will have already set the value of the e.javascript variable, you will want to append your code to e.javascript, as follows:
          'e.javascript = e.javascript + crlf() + var ele = $('mywindowid'); + crlf() + {dialog.object}.closeContainerWindow(ele);
          Using this method you need to check rtc.flagRecordWasSaved and follow the e.javacsript rules discussed.

          Using the event you mentioned, After save succeeded Javascript, you can just use

          'a) In the action that opens the Dialog in a window, set the Window title to something like this: MyWindowTtitle<span id="mywindowid"></span>
          'b) In this event handler set e.javascript to:
          ' var ele = $('mywindowid');
          ' {dialog.object}.closeContainerWindow(ele);
          And Alpha looks after everything for you. Code only gets run after the save has succeeded and this code is appeneded to e.javascript for you.

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            #6
            Re: close child UX after submit &amp; refresh parent

            Thanks Govindan and David for your comments on this. I hadn't noticed the discussion of this at the end of afterDialogValidate. The problem I still see is that these solutions all rely on the parent explicitly setting the UX alias (or specifying a span tag) when calling the child. I'm concerned about a few things with this:

            1. Does this create conflicts if I have multiple instances of the parent open, thereby possibly having multiple child UXs with the same hard-coded UX alias or span tag?

            2. Hard-coding the name of anything into code in the child UX component when that name is not defined in the child UX concerns me. Things break if I re-use the child in another parent?

            I wish I could find a way to encapsulate this behavior exclusively in the child UX, and just let Alpha assign unique default aliases to however many child instances appear. A way that that I can have the child identify itself and close that doesn't rely on any explicit naming from the parent. Is there a way that anyone knows that this can be be solved?

            Many thanks.

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              #7
              Re: close child UX after submit &amp; refresh parent

              Remember that the Window Title is completely variable. You can include {control} data in the name. You could include an Id in the Title and that makes every instance of that window available with a unique element id.

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                Re: close child UX after submit &amp; refresh parent

                Originally posted by rvanderbes View Post
                Thanks Govindan and David for your comments on this. I hadn't noticed the discussion of this at the end of afterDialogValidate. The problem I still see is that these solutions all rely on the parent explicitly setting the UX alias (or specifying a span tag) when calling the child. I'm concerned about a few things with this:

                1. Does this create conflicts if I have multiple instances of the parent open, thereby possibly having multiple child UXs with the same hard-coded UX alias or span tag?

                2. Hard-coding the name of anything into code in the child UX component when that name is not defined in the child UX concerns me. Things break if I re-use the child in another parent?

                I wish I could find a way to encapsulate this behavior exclusively in the child UX, and just let Alpha assign unique default aliases to however many child instances appear. A way that that I can have the child identify itself and close that doesn't rely on any explicit naming from the parent. Is there a way that anyone knows that this can be be solved?

                Many thanks.
                this is my opinion.
                whenever a window is open regardless in the same computer or another computer elsewhere in the internet, if that window is active then any javascript will work only on that window since it is browser script. this will be true even when one opens multiple instances of the same parent opening child in the same computer. since the active window gets the keystrokes the active window will close. not the other windows.
                to test my theory I opened the same parent three times and called the child in each and did transaction in each of the dialogs and closed each dialog in a random fashion with no rhyme or reason. all child windows closed and the other windows stayed open. this is possible since the window is open as a modal popup.
                I think this is what alpha thought process to assign the name in the parent and linking that name in the child javascript actions.
                thanks for reading

                gandhi

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                  Re: close child UX after submit &amp; refresh parent

                  thanks for everyone's help and thoughts on this. Unfortunately, the more I try to understand this, the more lost I get.

                  In my testing, if I follow the directions in the afterdialogvalidate event, and insert a span tag into the child window title, I can then use that to close the child. I don't really understand how to put control info into this to make it unique, and pretty sure I'm going to break it. This just seems to be a very painful way to go about what should be a fairly common task?

                  In the Open UX Component action javascript that calls the child UX there is the option to specify the window name. The help associated with this field explains that this window name field should be used for this purpose, and gives examples of how to use this to get a pointer to the child UX. Although it seems straightforward, I just simply cannot get this to work.

                  In fact, I'm not really sure what the difference is between the window name, window ID, alias. I've read other posts related to this, and it seems like many have different strategies for getting handles & closing dialogs. Alpha seems to document the approach to this differently in a few places. Just can't figure out what's what? I've watched so many selwin videos, I now hear him in my sleep!

                  Any thoughts on this, or referrals to relevant documentation are much appreciated. Thanks!

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                    #10
                    Re: close child UX after submit &amp; refresh parent

                    ok
                    try this
                    in the child dialog you have a button to submit the dialog that calls the aftervalidae event to save the data right.
                    add one more action inline javascript
                    {dialog,object}.closeContainerWindow(this);
                    save and run the parent dialog see if it closes the child dialog.
                    the drawbacks are, this will fire even if the data is not saved, sometime this is unpredictable. it may not close. for most part it should close.
                    thanks for reading

                    gandhi

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                      #11
                      Re: close child UX after submit &amp; refresh parent

                      Gandhi, thanks... you're correct, that will get the dialog to close, but since the method is not being called at the appropriate point in the cycle, there's more coding to be done to check the status of the save, etc. It will work, in this example, but I'm really looking for an understanding of how to reliably & predictably get pointers to popups/parents so methods can be executed on them in response to the appropriate events.
                      I don't know if the documentation is wrong, but it seems to contradict itself, of just not work reliably. I keep thinking I'm missing something obvious, because this seems to me like it would be such a common scenario?

                      Thanks!

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                        #12
                        Re: close child UX after submit &amp; refresh parent

                        SOLVED!

                        Thanks for the help on this. Just to close the loop, here's the solution I used --

                        Placed in the 'After Save Succeeded Javascript' of the 'Save Submitted Data to Tables' action script:

                        // close window
                        var ele = {dialog.Object}.getPointer('BUTTON_SUBMIT');
                        {dialog.Object}.closeContainerWindow(ele);

                        In the end, quite simple. Problem along the way, was after the callback fires, and the JS runs, 'this' is uninitialized, so needed to find another way to get a pointer to the window.

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