Automatically open a new window when entering a specific page

Question

Hi
I have a request I cant seem to solve:
1) On screen A the users presses a button and a collection is parsed on
2) Screen B retrieves the collection, and passes control to a procedure producing lots of htp.p output (sor far so good, works like a dream)
The above is solved using processes in both 1) (after submit) and 2) before regions
3) The end users wants screen C to occur in another window automatically (it's various backgriund stuff, they need to see as well as screen B). So its not good enough to just have another panel with the data.
How can I achieve 3) without adding a button to screen B It shuld popup automatically?
regards
Mette

Answer 1

Hello Mette,
Try this:
1) Create a new page C. Be sure that the Page Template is set to Popup.
2) Add this javascript to the HTML Header in page B (replacing the page # in url with the page # for page C and adjusting width and height to your liking):
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function showPopup() {
   var url;
   url = 'f?p=&APP_ID.:3:&SESSION.::&DEBUG.::';
   w = open(url, "myPopup", "scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600");
   if (w.opener == null)
      w.opener = self;
   w.focus();
//-->
</script>3) Add this to the HTML Body Attribute for page B:
onload="javascript:showPopup();"This will pop up page C after page B has loaded.
Hope this helps,
John