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IWDatacapture.close(false) inconsistent behaviour

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to work around an interwoven bug, we're got some FormAPI checking going on through the "onInit", to validate the user's role...if user is an author or editor, they'll get a pop up alert message, and want to immediately follow with closing the DCT...here's the function, nothing shocking, completely simple, and as mentioned to do in other devnet threads:

function ValidateAccess() {
var userRole = IWDatacapture.getRole();
if (userRole != "master" && userRole != "admin") {
alert("You don't have sufficient permissions to edit this dcr type.\nYou must be either a master or an administrator.");
IWDatacapture.close(false);
}
}

we reliably get the alert window for the author and editor roles...however we do NOT reliably get the DCT to close itself...the code hasnt' been changed in ages, and it does close itself, but only on some occassions, like when it feels like it, it's a blue moon on the 3rd tuesday of the month, the temperature is exactly 78 degrees, or I'm standing on my head...

anyone else experiencing this inconsistent behaviour???

thanks,
-Rori

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Adam Stoller

I haven't tried this - but perhaps this would work better...:
var userRole = IWDatacapture.getRole();
if (!userRole.match(/(master|admin)$/)){
alert("You don't have sufficient permissions to edit this dcr type.\nYou must be either a master or an administrator.");
IWDatacapture.close(false);
}The change to using match is stylistic only.
The significant change would be to do this at the very top, before init(), before the onFormInit.

Like I said, I haven't tried this - but it might work ...

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

LooseCannon

I've encountered similiar issues that seemed to be caused by the datcapture frame not being fully loaded. Try adding a timout


function ValidateAccess() {
 if (parent.datacapture.isDatacaptureLoaded) {
  var userRole = IWDatacapture.getRole();
  if (userRole != "master" && userRole != "admin") {
   alert("You don't have sufficient permissions to edit this dcr type.\nYou must be either a master or an administrator.");
   IWDatacapture.close(false);
  }
 }
 else {
  setTimeout("ValidateAccess()",500);
 }
}

Migrateduser

thanks for the suggestion...moving it out of the onInit function results in the alert window popping up against a fully grey background, not the loaded DCT, but that's the only change Smiley Sad

any other suggestions?

thanks,
-Rori

Migrateduser

thanks for the suggestion...wish that was the answer to my problem, but it doesn't appear to be...tried the timeout with calling the ValidateAccess function both inside the onInit function and at top-level, no change...

the weird part I'm noticing now is I'm having a harder time getting it to actually close...like there's a session cookie or something? I thought at one point I could at least log out of TS and log back in, and it woudl close for me first time I went into it...now it seems like I get the one close, and then forget it until some magical moment in the future...logging out and back in, and clearing my cookies/temp files doesn't seem to make a difference, either...

thanks,
-Rori

LooseCannon

hmmm, this is odd...

my last suggestion is to replace

IWDatacapture.close(false);  // I don't think the close method takes an arg??

with

parent.window.close();