Details in a pop-up window.

Question

L.S.
In my web application I display data from a database in a table. One of the columns in the table is a hyper link. When a user clicks the hyper link I would like a window to pop up, displaying additional data from the same data provider as the one that provides data for the table.
How do I code this functionality?
Thanks,
Annet.

Answer 1

L.S.
The data I would like to display is a description of the entry the user clicks in the table. I use the following javascript code to open the details page in a new window.
diaryDetails=window.open("/FitwiseB2C/faces/DiaryDetails.jsp?diaryId=#{currentRow.value['diary.diaryId']}", " diaryDetails ", "height=408, resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes, toolbar=no, width=480"); diaryDetails.focus(); return false;
This works fine except for the fact that instead of the diaryId I would like to pass the description to the details page, and that does not work, probably because the data type is text.
I also considered passing the rowKey as a parameter in the javascript code, that way I could just add the data provider to the details page and get the description using the rowKey, however I have no idea how to get the rowKey into the javascript code.
I also had I look at the Diva's adding a popup window to a Java Studio Creator Web Page tutorial (http://blogs.sun.com/divas/entry/adding_a_popup_window_to), however I was not able to adjust it in a way that suits my needs.
Could anyone advise me on how to tackle this problem.
Thanks,
Annet.