Download attachment from the UI action

[Nag9]

Hi All,

I have a requirement to create a link in ritm form to download a file. When the user clicks on the link, it should download a file, and the form should stay on the same page.

For this, I created a UI action for the ritm table with the below code.

onclick -confirmDownload()

script:

function confirmDownload() 

var URL = 'nav_to.do?uri=sys_attachment.do?sys_id=aec12b1b970321100408bde3f153affb';

var down = confirm("Do you want to download the file?');

     alert(down);

if (down) 

g_navigation.openPopup(URL);

action.setRedirectURL(url);

    }

}

It's working as expected, but the issue is that it's redirecting to some other page. If you remove the if condition, the file will not be downloaded when the user clicks on the UI action.

On clicking on the UI action, a file should be downloaded with specific fields data as in excel format(like export excel) and it should stay on the same page.

Anyone help me on this?

@asifnoor - can you look this thread once

Thanks

Nag

[Mohit Kaushik]

Hi @Nag9 ,

Please add the below line at end of your code, that should do the work.

// add this after redirectURL line
action.setReturnURL(current);

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[Nag9]

Thanks for quick reply,

 Still form is redirecting to other page

function confirmDownload() {

var URL = 'nav_to.do?uri=sys_attachment.do?sys_id=aec12b1b970321100408bde3f153affb';

    var down = confirm('Do you want to download the file?');

     alert(down);

    if (down) {

g_navigation.openPopup(URL);

action.setRedirectURL(url);

  action.setReturnURL(current);

    }

}

g_navigation.openPopup(URL); - seems this line is causing issue - but if remove this line file is not downloading

[Nag9]

@Ankur Bawiskar  Could you please help me on this

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@Nag9 

your UI action should be client side and update script as this

No need to use action object

function confirmDownload() {
	var URL = '/sys_attachment.do?sys_id=aec12b1b970321100408bde3f153affb';
	var down = confirm("Do you want to download the file?");
	if (down == true) 
		g_navigation.open(URL, '_blank');
}

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