Javascript in Workflow

I am trying to make a popup appear during the file upload process (ipl file) of a workflow using javascript, and nothing happens. Is there a trick to doing this?

Code is as follows:
//print $page->header( 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' );
//print <
//closetime= 100;
//function Start(URL, WIDTH, HEIGHT) {
//windowprops = "left=225,top=325,width=" + WIDTH + ",height=" + HEIGHT;
//move = window.open(URL, "move", windowprops);
//if (closetime) setTimeout("move.close();", closetime*1000);
//}
//function doPopup() {
//url = "notify.html";
//width = 525 ; // width of window in pixels
//height = 192; // height of window in pixels
//delay = 1; // time in seconds before popup opens
//timer = setTimeout("Start(url, width, height)", delay*1000);
//}
//</script>

//
//
//NEW
//
//STOP

//print $page->dump;

Thanks,

Greg Beirise
Allstate

Edited by gregjb on 09/23/04 10:13 AM (server time).

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Migrateduser

Not sure I follow you when you say "file upload process" - is this an externaltask or a cgitask that you have written? Can you give us a little more context? If it's a cgitask, it shouldn't be a problem to pop up a javascript alert.

Migrateduser

Y'know, your post made a pop-up appear on my screen that tells me there's a JavaScript error :-)

Also, it doesn't look as though your entire post made it.

Please try again, but put some space between the tag marks (<>) and the word "script" just to make sure your script doesn't get "too involved" with your post.

Dave

Migrateduser

Making it an attachment to the post might be the best idea.

gregjb

Here's the code

my $page = new CGI;

print $page->header( 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' );

print <<STOP;
<script language="javascript">
closetime= 100;
function Start(URL, WIDTH, HEIGHT) {
windowprops = "left=225,top=325,width=" + WIDTH + ",height=" + HEIGHT;
move = window.open(URL, "move", windowprops);
if (closetime) setTimeout("move.close();", closetime*1000);
}

function doPopup() {
url = "notify.html";
width = 525 ; // width of window in pixels
height = 192; // height of window in pixels
delay = 1; // time in seconds before popup opens
timer = setTimeout("Start(url, width, height)", delay*1000);
}
</script>

gregjb

We're using the standard cgi file upload.

Dwayne

I suspect this line:

timer = setTimeout("Start(url, width, height)", delay*1000);

as being the culprit, but I'm not 100% certain. You're telling the JS engine to execute the line of JS

Start(url, width, height) after 1 second. That's all well and good, but what's the scope of that execution? In other words, are the variables url, width, and height available at that time? I'm actually not certain, but my hunch is that they're not, and that you'd have to recode the line to look something like this:

timer = setTimeout("Start('" + url + "', " + width + " ," + height + ")", delay*1000);

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