Skillbuilder Modal Page needs to execute a process on the parent page

Question

Hi,
I am using apex 4.1 and theme 2. Also I am using the Skillbuilder modal page plugin.
I have a modal page with a textbox and a button. On click of this button i want to pass the textbox value to the parent page and execute a process on the parent page.
I dont want to hardcode the page numbers here as this same popup page will be used in all the pages in the application. It is to capture the comments before submit on each page. Hence it should just pass the values to the page that called this modal window.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
DS

Answer 1

Take a look at these:
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Basically: define a dynamic action on your parent page to act on the close event of the modal page. On your modal page, use the close method of the plugin (and possibly provide a return value)
From documentation
Advanced Usage
Methods
Close*
The close method can be used to close the modal dialog programmatically. The method accepts an optional parameter which can be anything. That value can then be >accessed in Dynamic Actions that respond to any of the close events of the plug-in. The syntax to access the value is: this.data.modalPageCloseValue. To access the method >from within the child page, see the third example.
$(document).apex_modal_page('close');
$(document).apex_modal_page('close', someVariable);
parent.$(parent.document).apex_modal_page('close');
Events
Manual Close
The Manual Close event fires when the the modal dialog is closed by either the end user or programmatically by the close method. If the close method was used it’s possible >that an optional value was passed to the close method which is exposed in Dynamic Actions as this.data.modalPageCloseValue.
Close
The Close event fires whenever the modal dialog is closed, whether automatically or manually.