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We are currently placing PDF’s within an iFrame but prefer to have the PDF’s open in a new window outside of an iFrame.

I Have two questions.

Question 1:

Does PROFOUNDUI

pui.openURL("http://www.google.com");

or

pui.link("http://www.google.com");

open a new window in the same way the following html code would open a new window?

<h3 align="center"> <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">Google Home Page</a></h3>

Question 2:

Can pui.openURL(http://www.google.com) be called from RPG in addition to using it on the client side. Is there anything on the server side that can be called that will perform the same function as pui.openURL("http://www.goog.com") ? A server side solution would be extremely helpful as the PDF’s have dynamic/unique names and only live for 2 to 2.5 minutes before they are deleted.

pui.link() will not open a new window.

But pui.openURL() will. pui.openURL() is equivalent to the JavaScript’s window.open() method.

Unfortunately, It is not possible to call this directly by RPG code. However, the RPG code could perhaps refresh the screen and output a flag or a URL variable that will tell the JavaScript to call this. Your JavaScript code may then be assigned to the screen's onload event and look like this:

When a subfile is involved, how do you get it to return the value "URL" from a selected row?

Thanks.

In a subfile, each field ID on the screen has a number appended to it. So, to get the URL from the top row, you'd code get("URL.1"), the second row would be get("URL.2"), etc.

If you have the row number in a variable, you can concatenate them. get("URL." + row);

Thanks Scott.