Closing window of web dynpro application with exit-plug don't run in the EP

Question

Hi everybody,
I want to close a window that contains a Web Dynpro with a close button, because it's used and create as a popup from an other iView (that's not created with web dynpros) in the EP. I read the different threads how to close a window in web dynpro, like JavaScript in WD
I create a HTML file with the javascript code to close the window and it works fine, when I start the application separately.
If I used it in the portal and click the close button I get the following error message:
com.sap.tc.webdynpro.services.exceptions.WDRuntimeException: Exit-Plug must no be triggered with an URL when running in portal. Use portal navigation instead to navigate to another application!
I tried also: ...wdFirePlugExit("javascript:self.parent.close();") or some other javascript code, but got the same error message.
Then I tried:
WDPortalNavigation.navigateAbsolute(url,WDPortalNavigationMode.SHOW_INPLACE,(String) null, (String) null,(String) null);
instead of fireing the outbound plug in the action of the close button
(...InterfaceViewController().wdFirePlugExit(url);)
but than a new window with the EP open and the old is still there!
We use the NWDS2004s an the EP 7.00.
It must be possible to close a (this) window!
Thanks for any hint
christian

Answer 1

Hi,
   This is what you can do:
1. You have already created the HTML file with the necessary javascript in the foloowing folder structure :
src->Mimes->Components-><your component name>-><fileName.html>.
2. Create a new iView of type URL in your portal.
3. Get the absolute URL of this HTML file inside your project. This will be in the following format:
http://<server>:<port>/webdynpro/resources/sap.com/<development ComponentName>/Components/<namespace>/<fileName>.html
You can find it thus:
try {
String u = WDURLGenerator.getAbsoluteWebResourceURL(wdComponentAPI.getDeployableObjectPart(),"filename.html");
wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess(u);
} catch (WDURLException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
4. Now enter this URL string as the URL for the iview.
5. Do a normal portal navigation to this iview on-click of the button.
Regards,
Satyajit.