[External Window] Reuse an existing window

Hi,
From what I have read, this is not possible to close an external window from the parent web dynpro application (external means opened through create_external_window method).
In spite of what the SAP Help documentation is saying (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/43/79f82ccbec6fcde10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm), I did manage to open an external window from SAP Enterprise Portal .
As this is impossible to close the external window* (programmatically !), I was wondering whether it was possible to "reuse" the window (usually, setting the target attribute of an HTML hyperlink does this trick). Unfortunately, I haven't found the target attribute (which is different from the title attribute).
Is this possible to inject the target attribute in the new window?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Guillaume
To be honest, there is lot of contradictions regarding this aspect. Indeed, it is stated in NET311 Training guide that it is possible to close a window opened with create_external_window and OSS Note [1234843|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1234843] also seems to say so (we are operating 7.01 SP03)
Edited by: Guillaume Garcia on Jan 7, 2010 11:12 AM

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