Close "Working" window after displaying pdf report/letter

[George Corder]

I have built a button built by action javascript to print a letter. When I click the button on the grid, the pdf letter displays. If I close adobe and go back to the form, the working popup box is still there. To close it, I have to know to click off on the grid somewhere. How can this automatically close itself?

IE9 and Chrome 25.0

[George Corder]

Re: Close "Working" window after displaying pdf report/letter

In Chrome I had to go to chrome://plugins/ and disable Adobe PDF plug-in. I have Adobe Pro installed and not Reader so I can't find the setting to correct with IE9.

[richardurban]

Re: Close "Working" window after displaying pdf report/letter

I have the same issue, and maybe one other.
1) When the report is to be printed, it does not appear in a pdf window; rather, a dialog prompts to save the file, and then you can print it from the PDF window that opens when you click on the downloaded file. So, can the report be made to appear without having to save the download first?
2) When you do open the report, the original window, which says "working", never closes, even though I put the following javascript in the set up wizard "after execute javascript" to set up printing the report:

//get a pointer to the window object
var wObj = {Dialog.Object}.getWindow('MYWINDOW');
wObj.close();

Should I put some other code there, and is this process not functioning correctly, as you must first download the PDF before seeing it?

[RankFirstPro]

Re: Close "Working" window after displaying pdf report/letter

If you do an ajax callback after downloading the pdf you can close the window by doing something like this

function_Name = "{dialog.Object}.closeContainerWindow('A5dlg1');"

A5dlg1 is the id of the window, you can use firebug to confirm the ID. The problem is that sometimes that ID changes. I'm trying to figure out how to force a specific name to the window but I can't get it to stick.

***The other problem that I've run into with reports is that, for some users, the pdf shows in the window on the screen and others it is automatically downloaded. For the automatically downloaded pdf I can't get the default A5dlg1 to close the loading window. This might change with a specific ID name though.

[richardurban]

Re: Close "Working" window after displaying pdf report/letter

This is not a very elegant solution, but it works.
Create a div using this code and an id number of your choice

<Div id ="123">
</div>

Put this code in one of the grid's free from edit regions; in my application I chose to the right of the grid, which is usually off screen. Make the size of the iframe 1 px x 1 px in the "target iframe style" property. Uncheck the "Can hide target div" box.
Basically, this will make the "working" window invisible for all practical purposes. The working window will be closed when the grid is closed, but it really does not matter if it is not closed.
P.S. For some reason the changes would not "stick" until I checked the "Can hide target div" box, saved the component and published it. Then I unchecked the box, republished and it worked ok???

[richardurban]

Re: Close "Working" window after displaying pdf report/letter

The above is not a good solution, as it only works with Firefox. Chrome and Internet Explorer display the report in the pop up window, as expected. If you hide the div, as suggested above, then the report does not appear.