Reload after sumit

[Marshall Dudley]

I need to be able to allow a user to submit a form which opens another
window. This part I have working. But after the submit, I need to delay
and have the original window do a reload. I cannot figure out how to do
this. If I do a delay and reload with an OnSubmit, then the new window
will load only after the reload, which will not work.

Basically the first page displays a set of things that need to be done,
and after clicking on the button of something outstanding, a new window
pops up, and the action is preformed. Once the action is done, that
item is no longer needed to be done, so the original window I need to do
a reload, so it will not show up as outstanding any more. A 1 or 2
second delay would be plenty.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Marshall

[ExGuardianReader]

Re: Reload after sumit

Marshall Dudley wrote:
[color=blue]
> I need to be able to allow a user to submit a form which opens another
> window. This part I have working. But after the submit, I need to delay
> and have the original window do a reload. I cannot figure out how to do
> this. If I do a delay and reload with an OnSubmit, then the new window
> will load only after the reload, which will not work.
>
> Basically the first page displays a set of things that need to be done,
> and after clicking on the button of something outstanding, a new window
> pops up, and the action is preformed. Once the action is done, that
> item is no longer needed to be done, so the original window I need to do
> a reload, so it will not show up as outstanding any more. A 1 or 2
> second delay would be plenty.[/color]

Why have this second window?

If the main page needs to be reloaded anyway, just submit without a
target window specified, and have the servlet process the submission,
and return the new, updated page.

If you INSIST, then you can have the newly opened window calling a
javascript function in its parent window which does a reload. Use
window.opener to get to the parent. Or the child could call a Javascript
function in its parent window which just uses DOM calls to change the
display to remove the "outstandin g" status.

There is no sleep() function in Javascript.