Open Dialog Window in Parent Frame

Question

I have a page viewer web part on my page which is surfacing a News page from another part of our SharePoint farm.  This News page contains links to many articles which I have told to open in a Dialog window using the following code:
function DisplayArticle(url)
var options = SP.UI.$create_DialogOptions();
options.width = 900;
options.height = 800;
options.url = url;
SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options);
This is working fine although the dialog opens within the boundary of the Page Viewer web part and I would like it to open as if it was a dialog of the parent window.
Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Hi,
Because the dialog function is running within the context of the iframe, seems like its creating the dialog divs as children of the iframe's.
You can do something like this:
1) Create some Javascript function in the parent page, some thing like this:
function DisplayArticleInParent(url)
var options = SP.UI.$create_DialogOptions();
options.width = 900;
options.height = 800;
options.url = url;
SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options);
2) from inside the iframe call parent pages function which we created above something like this:
parent.DisplayArticleInParent('your article url');
Genrally window.parent returns a reference to the parent of the current window or subframe.When a window is loaded in an <iframe>, <object>, or <frame>, its parent is the window with the element embedding the window.
Please refer following link for calling parent window function:
http://forums.asp.net/t/1117770.aspx
Hope It might help you
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