Can we call child DCT from parent DCT

Hi ,

I have one Landing Page DCT & Raw Detail Page DCT .

Want to call Raw Detail Page DCT from Landing Page DCT .

There are two ways :

1. First Create Raw Detail Page DCR & on Landing Page DCT have a browse item to browse to this DCR . This is the common sollution we usually do .

2. Creating Raw Detail Page DCRs on the fly i.e., Calling Raw Detail Page DCT ( not DCR) from Landing DCT ( by having a button or link ) then enter the data in Raw DCT & save it ...the raw detail DCR path automatically populates the text or browse item present on landing page .

I want to implement by 2 way .

Pls guide me is there a way to activate a child DCT from parent DCT .

Regard
Rohit Pathak

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Adam Stoller

Hi ,

I have one Landing Page DCT & Raw Detail Page DCT .

Want to call Raw Detail Page DCT from Landing Page DCT .

There are two ways :

1. First Create Raw Detail Page DCR & on Landing Page DCT have a browse item to browse to this DCR . This is the common sollution we usually do .

2. Creating Raw Detail Page DCRs on the fly i.e., Calling Raw Detail Page DCT ( not DCR) from Landing DCT ( by having a button or link ) then enter the data in Raw DCT & save it ...the raw detail DCR path automatically populates the text or browse item present on landing page .

I want to implement by 2 way .

Pls guide me is there a way to activate a child DCT from parent DCT .

Regard
Rohit Pathak

Do you mean like using a CCI URL callout to run either Edit DCR (or New DCR) from the "parent" DCT? - yes.

If that's not what you mean - then I'm not sure of the answer.

rohitspathak123

Hi Goti ,

Yes i exactly mean calling CCI URL . How do we do this ?

RohitPathak

Yukka

Hi Goti ,

Yes i exactly mean calling CCI URL . How do we do this ?

RohitPathak

The Syntax for a CCI-Link is described in the User Interface Customization Guide in Chapter "Using URL Commands".

in ts 6.x try something like:
http://SERVERNAME/iw-cc/edit?vpath=YOURPATH

Regards,
Oliver

KiranM

Hi,

I had the same requirement as Rohit had. When i open a child dct from a parent dct, and save the child dct, the child dcr path should be fed into a text field of the parent dct. I tried using both parent.getScriptFrame() and window.opener, but was not able to access the parent dct elements.

I had even passed "done_page=/iw-cc/teamsite/common/refresh_parent_and_close_window.html" parameter with the url for opening the child dct and tried to access using window.opener in the child javascript, but in vain.

I will appreciate if anyone can help me with this.

Thanks,
Kiran.

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ISCBorisB

Hi,

I had the same requirement as Rohit had. When i open a child dct from a parent dct, and save the child dct, the child dcr path should be fed into a text field of the parent dct. I tried using both parent.getScriptFrame() and window.opener, but was not able to access the parent dct elements.

I had even passed "done_page=/iw-cc/teamsite/common/refresh_parent_and_close_window.html" parameter with the url for opening the child dct and tried to access using window.opener in the child javascript, but in vain.

I will appreciate if anyone can help me with this.

Thanks,
Kiran.

Consider your Child DCR Page as (sort of) CGI callout Page. In both cases you can use absolutely same technique to set
Opener's (Parent DCR) fields. Check for example [post=115370]Callback From CGI Page[/post] Post

KiranM

Consider your Child DCR Page as (sort of) CGI callout Page. In both cases you can use absolutely same technique to set
Opener's (Parent DCR) fields. Check for example [post=115370]Callback From CGI Page[/post] Post

Thanks boris. I had tried calling opener.top.getScriptFrame() in the java script of my child dct, but am not able to get that object and invoke any items on the parent dct. You said there are several ways for doing this. Can you please list them too, such that i can check whether that works.

Thanks again for the help..Kiran.

ISCBorisB

Thanks boris. I had tried calling opener.top.getScriptFrame() in the java script of my child dct, but am not able to get that object and invoke any items on the parent dct. You said there are several ways for doing this. Can you please list them too, such that i can check whether that works.

Thanks again for the help..Kiran.

How do you open up Child DCR Form? Do you use CC URL Edit?

I just checked and it looks like CC URL calls do not retain original 'opener' in the ultimately rendered code, not in the
canonical window.opener Object anyway. The end-result is that the Parent's FormAPI can access Child's methods (through
Window Handler for example) but Child DCR has no idea who the Opener is! True, there are several call back mechanisms.
However, every one of them uses some opener information, there is no way around it.

What you can do is to provide required opener Object yourself. To do that, declare something like openerAPI variable in the Child
FormAPI and populate it from the Parent right after Child opening using Child's Window handler. Then your Child's
FormAPI would be able to use openerAPI.CallBackFunction(...) Calls to manipulate Opener's DCR.

That said, the fact that you can build a Titanic does not mean you should. There are much easier ways to maintain assets'
relational information, ensure referential integrity and whatnot. (RDB, anybody?)