Problem running javascript in an Interactive Report

Question

I have a page that opens a popup window. The popup window shows a standard report. I have added a column link in this report so that the row selected will be passed back to the page that opened this popup. It is in the Column Link area, Target is URL and the URL is
javascript:passBack('#REGULATION_COMBO_CD#'); javascript:parentRefesh() ; javascript:window.close();
This works fine. But since I want to be able to search the report in the popup window, I migrated this standard report to an interactive one. The Column Link no longer works. It doesn't return the info or close this popup window. So it looks like the javascript iis not running.
I tried to change the information in the Link Column area of the interactive report. I can use the target page and the Item Value fields to pass the information back to the calling page, but it won't run the javascript to close this popup window.
Am I missing a place where the javascript should go in an interactive report? APEX 3.1.1, Oracle 10g
Edited by: mimi_jones on Nov 20, 2009 4:44 AM
Edited by: mimi_jones on Nov 20, 2009 8:55 AM

Answer 1

Hi,
Try creating a javascript function on your page and call that instead of running all of the code from the link
<javascript type="text/javascript">
function passbackAndClose(v)
passBack(v);
parentRefesh();
window.close();
</javascript>put that in your popup page's HTML Header setting.
Then change the link to:
#" onclick="javascript:passbackAndClose('#REGULATION_COMBO_CD#');When you chain javascript calls, the browser generally expects each function to do "return true;" when the function is finished. Usually, this is just assumed, but sometimes you need to add this in to your code.
Also - you have parentRefesh() - should this be parentRefresh() ?
Andy