Dynamic redirection after document deletion

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Have you ever wanted to redirect a user to a different page based on what document has been deleted in the database?

1. Create button that will execute 
JavaScript function deleeDoc() (this will 
prompt users if they want to delete 
document) :


function deleteDoc(){
if ( confirm ("Are you sure you want to 
delete this document?")) {
 window.location="http: / /
yourServer/YourDB.nsf/ 
(LookUpView) /" + 
 document.all.item("documentUNID").value + 
 "?deleteDocument&PageNameForRederection" } 
}

2. Create computed for display field with 
formula:
"[<INPUT  TYPE=HIDDEN NAME = 
"documentUNID" VALUE="" + 
@Text(@DocumentUniqueID) + "">]"

This will store your document UNID 
which can be used by JavaScript.

3. Finally, create $$ReturnDocumentDeleted 
form and place this JavaScript in the onLoad event:

arg = document.URL;
pos = arg.indexOf("&");
page = arg.substring(pos+1,arg.length);
setInterval("Countdown(page)", 1000)


Place this script in JSHaeader

function Countdown(page){
  window.location="http: / /
yourServer/yourDB/" + page + 
"?OpenPage"
}

You can place animated gif in the $$ReturnDocumentDeleted (broom or garbage can) and you can also control how long $$ReturnDocumentDeleted will be displayed by modifying parameter in setInterval.

Please make sure that you create Lookup view with first sorted column with formula @Text(@DocumentUniqueID).

This will only work if user opens document in edit mode. If you want to delete document in read mode replace step 1 and 2 with:

1. Create button that will execute JavaScript 
function deleeDoc()- this will prompt users if
 they want to delete document :


function deleteDoc()
{
  if ( confirm ("Are you sure you want to 
delete this document?")) 
  {
        var temp = document.forms[0]
 temp.butDelete.click()
  } 
}


2. Create div tag with delete button, 
which executes formula (div tag hides 
button but it can be executed by JavaScript)


<div id = '@formulaButton' 
style='display:none'>

Your button goes here

</div>

Here is the formula for button:

@URLOpen("http: / /yourServer/
yourDB.nsf/ (DeleteLookup) /" +@Text
(@DocumentUniqueID) + "
?deleteDocument&ViewName")

name button butDelete (HTML TAG, 
Name propriety)

3. Step 3 is the same as in the 
previous section.

You can redirect users to different pages based on document status For example if document has status field, based on its value you can pass different page parameter to $$ReturnDocumentDeleted form.

MEMBER FEEDBACK TO THIS TIP

A neat tip that will be handy if deletion of docs allowed by Web users. However, a view sorted by doc UNID is not required when accessing a document via its UNID. Any view name can be used in the URL, even a non-existant view name -- so use something short like '0'.

-- T Brooks

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Good tip, another way to simplify the JavaScript for the URL would be:

 var hostname = location.href.split('.nsf'); 

 arg = document.URL;
pos = arg.indexOf("&");
page = arg.substring(pos+1,arg.length);
setInterval("Countdown(page)", 1000)

 
function Countdown(page){
  window.location= hostname[0] + 
".nsf/" + page + "?OpenPage"
}

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