Running a sequence of events

Question

I'd like a bit of advice if possible on my 'solution' to a requirement:
The requirement is to have a 'Save and Close' button to update a table (using MRU) in a popup window, then close the popup.
Sounds simple? - It probably is and there's quite a few posts relating to this general subject. My problem was that I wanted to retain the MRU (multi row update) process, rather than call a bespoke stored procedure which would have updated the data and contained the appropriate JavaScript to close the popup after the process finished.
My work-around was to put window.close() script in the 'Success Message' part of the MRU process but this seems very clunky. How should I go about doing this?
Thanks ,
Toby

Answer 1

For the sake of anyone else drifting through this particular mire - one option I'd tried was to branch (after processing) to a URL when my button request evaluated to true.
The value I'd put in the URL was "javascript:window.close()". The engine was trying to direct to to a page with this name on my server which caused me great confusion, as I was assuming the behaviour would be the same as when directing to a URL following a button click. (assumptions, assumptions).
Finally, I realised there was a 'Branch to PL/SQL' option in the create Branch wizard, which enabled me to add the following code in the "Action" section
begin
htp.p('script language = "javascript">');
htp.p('window.close()') ;
htp.p('</script>') ;
end ;
Interestingly, I alighted on this by searching through references to 'branches' on this forum, where initially I thought my problem was with using default MRU.
Cheers,
Toby