Close Window from onSubmit Client Script?

[Brian Treichel]

Hello,

We have a requirement that once an approval record has been updated (approved/rejected/comments/etc), the window should close if it comes from 'somewhere'. The way that I have been trying to do it is by adding 'sysparm_close_window=true' to the link that sends to the approval (from an email/portal/etc). In a display Business Rule, I look for that parameter and set a g_scratchpad variable 'close_window' to true. Now I am attempting to write an onSubmit Client Script that looks to see if 'close_window' is true, and if so, close the window. The problem that I am running into is that, because the onSubmit client script runs before the UI actions for Approve/Reject, the UI Action scripts never get triggered. I'm also having an issue that basic 'Save' loops the onSubmit script, and asks me if I want to leave the page without saving.

Business Rule:

g_scratchpad.close_window = gs.action.getGlideURI().toString().indexOf('sysparm_close_window=true') != -1;

OnSubmit Client Script:

if(g_scratchpad.close_window){
       g_form.submit();
       window.top.close();
     }

Anyone able to help out with this one?

Thanks,

Brian

[larstange]

Hi

If you just need to get a parameter added to the page URL, you can do this in your client script

var myparm = getParmVal('sysparm_close_window'); 

if(myparm == 'true'){   
       g_form.submit();   
       window.top.close();   
     }

function getParmVal(name){
   var url = document.URL.parseQuery();
   if(url[name]){
   return decodeURI(url[name]);
   }
   else{
   return;
   }
}

[bernyalvarado]

Hi Brian (briantreichel,

Here goes an idea. Within the business rule you can include a gs.redirect which points to a ui page which script closes the window.

I hope this helps

Thanks,

Berny

[Brian Treichel]

There's an idea! I think I'll try that out.

Edit: So the Business Rule would need to be an OnSubmit() 'after update', however the gs.action.getGlideURI() only seems to get the page URL in 'display' Business Rules. I don't think g_scratchpad would work 'server-to-server' (from the 'display' to the 'after update' BRs), so how would can I get the parameter server-side otherwise (preferably without writing data to the record to trigger the business rule)?

Thanks, Berny!

[bernyalvarado]

Hi Brian,

You will need to do an after Business Rule that should do the following:

a) lookup if the business rule is triggered from a page where the window should be closed. You can know from which page the business rule was triggered by using gs.action.getGlideURI()

b) if it's coming from a page where the window is closed then you use a gs.redirect to navigate to a ui page which will have your client javascript to do a simple window.close()

Please let me know if you have any follow up questions. I hope this helps!

Thanks,

Berny