How to startup a report in a popup after committing a form (solution)

Question

How to startup a report in a popup window after succesfull submission of a form</p>
In Portal Applications you can create forms in which e.g. users can enter
order-entries. When a user submits his order, it's a good practice to show his
filled-in order-form, containing the delivery address, items, descriptions,
prices etc etc.</p>
In this solution the order-report is started up in a popup window after
succesfully completing the order-entry form.</p>
Once you've created the form and report, you have to take two extra steps
(the abbrevation mos represents MyOrderSystem and offcourse you should replace
that by the schema- and applicationname you use).</p>
1  Create a package to startup the report</p>
<font face="Courier">create package MOS.MOS_POPUP_ORDER 
as 
 procedure show ( order_id varchar2, backurl varchar2 );
end; </font></p>
<font face="Courier">create package body MOS.MOS_POPUP_ORDER 
as 
 procedure show ( order_id varchar2 , backurl varchar2 ) 
 is 
  l_url varchar2(2000);
begin 
 if order_id is not null 
 then
-- URL to startup the report. Surf to the Develop tab while managing the
-- portal-report and click on Show the call interface.
  l_url := 'http://www.mydomain.com/pls/portal30/' 
        &#0124; &#0124; 'MOS.MOS_ORDER_REP.show?'
        &#0124; &#0124;
'p_arg_names=_show_header&;p_arg_values=YES&;'
        &#0124; &#0124; 'p_arg_names=order_id&;p_arg_values=' 
        &#0124; &#0124; order_id;
-- Display the popup window and startup the report.
  htp.p('<SCRIPT> var MyWindow = window.open(&quot;'
        &#0124; &#0124; l_url
        &#0124; &#0124;
'&quot;,&quot;MyOrderWindow&quot;,&quot;toolbar=no,location=yes,directories=no,'
        &#0124; &#0124;
'status=no,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,'
        &#0124; &#0124;
'height=400,width=600,left=150,top=150&quot;);'
        &#0124; &#0124;
'MyWindow.focus();</SCRIPT>');
-- Now you have two options:
-- 1. When you have your form in a Portal Page, you want to return to the page.
-- 2. When you have your form in a full window, you only have to return to that
--    window.
-- The coding is as followed:
-- 1. Copy this URL from the navigator pointing to the page.
  l_url := 'http://www.mydomain.com/pls/portal30/'
        &#0124; &#0124;
'!portal30.wwpob_page_util.redirect?'
        &#0124; &#0124;
'_pageid=123&;_mode=3&;_tabstring=&;_portletmode=&;_cache=1';
-- 2. Parameter backurl contains automatically the correct url to return
--    to the form in full browser mode.
  l_url := backurl;
-- Now return to the original window.
  htp.p('<SCRIPT>self.location.href=&quot;'
       &#0124; &#0124; l_url
       &#0124; &#0124; '&quot;</SCRIPT>');</font></p>
<font face="Courier"> end if;
end;</font></p>
2  Modify the form</p>
In the &quot;on succesful submission of a form&quot; part you enter this
PLSQL. Note that the order is identified by the column ORDER_ID and the CALL
procedure needs two parameters: the url for starting up the report and the
parameter name for the back-url. </p>
<font face="Courier">declare
 l_order_id integer;
begin
 l_order_id := p_session.get_value_as_NUMBER(
 p_block_name => 'DEFAULT',
 p_attribute_name => 'A_ORDER_ID');
 call('mos.mos_popup_order.show?order_id='&#0124; &#012 4;l_order_id,'backurl');
end;</font></p>
 </p>
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Answer 1

Excellent tip! Thank you for that!
One question - where you have hardcoded the URL to navigate to the report and back again, I'd like to be able to do this without the hardcoding. The domain of my development environment is different from the domain of my production environment, and I don't want to have to remember to change the URL when I handover code. How could I do this?