I'm XPage-ing a form in a big classic notes application, and I'm struggling to find a way to end the interaction with the form that presents a good UI. Here's my scenario:
1) Parent document (classic notes) is opened from a view 2) Button on parent document opens child document in XPiNC using notes:/// link. 3) Cancel button on child document XPage......
I've tried the following approaches:
a) Use window.close() I've done lots of googling on this one, and various approaches don't seem to work for me. window.close() is supposed to work if you call it from a window that was opened with window.open, so I tried window.open("closeMe.xsp", "_self") to see if this would give me a window that could be closed by an xpage with window.close() in the onClientLoad client side event. No luck there. The following questions make suggestions but don't provide a solution (apart from a third party product)
How do I close my window in Xpage? How to close xpages in notes client? I use CSJS window.close but it's not working
b) Redirect to parent document My next idea was to redirect to the parent document - it's already open in the Notes client. However, I found that when I redirect (using facesContext.getExternalContext().redirect("Notes:///url" ) it does indeed jump to the parent document, but it leaves a blank window open in the tab where the XPage was.
My next try was to close the parent in the original calling LotusScript, then redirect to the parent in the cancel button. This works too - you get to the parent document, but then if you press the escape key or close the tab with the parent document, it leaves you with an empty window again.
Any ideas? I like the idea of being able to return to the newly-opened parent document because I could expect an embedded view to be refreshed with my new child document, but at the moment I'll take anything that works. :)
Cheers,
Brendan