Can i raise a click event for a callout button in a script?

I have 2 callout buttons in the dct.
On the click of the 1st button, the above mentioned expandible-collapsible page opens. This is a cgi script(say ShowSitemap.ipl).

I have another callout button below the 1st one.
Can i raise a click event for this callout button in ShowSiteMap.ipl ??
if so, how can i do it??

I tried raising an event like :
calloutForm.elements[i+1].click();

where
calloutForm.elements is the first callout button.

if i do calloutForm.elements[i+1].name, it gives me the name of the item i want to work with. But i do not understand how to raise the event on which the next cgi script will run.

Can someone help me plz

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ISCBorisB

I have 2 callout buttons in the dct.
On the click of the 1st button, the above mentioned expandible-collapsible page opens. This is a cgi script(say ShowSitemap.ipl).

I have another callout button below the 1st one.
Can i raise a click event for this callout button in ShowSiteMap.ipl ??
if so, how can i do it??

I tried raising an event like :
calloutForm.elements[i+1].click();

where
calloutForm.elements is the first callout button.

if i do calloutForm.elements[i+1].name, it gives me the name of the item i want to work with. But i do not understand how to raise the event on which the next cgi script will run.

Can someone help me plz

Although possible, this is not supported in FormAPI.

Anyway, there is either CGI or perhaps some FormAPI callout Function behind this second button.
You can call either of them directly from the page rendered by the first CGI, there is no need
to fake button click.

- if you need to call CGI, use window.open() function or set the Form and use "CGI2" as Form's action, etc.
- if you have FormAPI function, try the following:

var api = window.opener.top.getScriptFrame();
api.YourSecondCalloutFunction();

Makes sense?

InterwovenIsFun

ya. . .i tried window.open().

Lets say
DataCapture Form = d;
FirstWindow = W1;
SecondWindow = W2

"d" has a callout which opens W1. W1 has a button which opens W2. I have to pass data from W1 to W2 and then after the processing of W2, I have to pass data from W2 to "d". I cant find how to do it. W2 is formed based on the data sent by W1.

ISCBorisB

ya. . .i tried window.open().

Lets say
DataCapture Form = d;
FirstWindow = W1;
SecondWindow = W2

"d" has a callout which opens W1. W1 has a button which opens W2. I have to pass data from W1 to W2 and then after the processing of W2, I have to pass data from W2 to "d". I cant find how to do it. W2 is formed based on the data sent by W1.

You'd have to play with window.opener Object to get a handler of the Parent window, see my example above.

window.opener of W2 should be W1 and opener of W1 is DC Form, etc. In theory, window.opener.opener
*may* give you an access to the grand parent. This trick however is not portable, has browser-dependent
issues, will fail if "middle" window has been closed etc.

Personally, I try to go no more than "one step up". In your case it means either fusing W1 and W2 into
a single module or perhaps using W2 opener to call W1 Function which in turn uses W1 opener to call
FormAPI "call-back" Function.

Comprende?

InterwovenIsFun

hmmm. . . .it was giving me loads of problems. . .
i tried making a hidden textbox where the second window would return data and i thought i would return this to the dct. . .
but W1 wouldn wait for the hidden textbox to get the data(if u get what i am trying to say. . . .if i write some code in the cgi script for w1 after the stmt to open w2, it does not wait for w2 to be closed).
Hence, i could not do it. . .
changed the design...
2 callouts is ok. . .
Smiley Sad

ISCBorisB

hmmm. . . .it was giving me loads of problems. . .
i tried making a hidden textbox where the second window would return data and i thought i would return this to the dct. . .
but W1 wouldn wait for the hidden textbox to get the data(if u get what i am trying to say. . . .if i write some code in the cgi script for w1 after the stmt to open w2, it does not wait for w2 to be closed).
Hence, i could not do it. . .
changed the design...
2 callouts is ok. . .

Hope you understand that this stream of consciousness makes absolutely no sense to anybody.

I'll make one last try though...Take a look at the enclosed sample, try it "as is" to see how it
works. See if you can leverage it to your needs.
[php]
// *** DCT ***

// *** Callout0.ipl. Modify Perl's shebang below and place in /iwhome/httpd/iw-bin ***
#!/Your Path to IWHOME/iw-perl/bin/iwperl
use strict;

print qq(Content-type: text/html\n\n

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function next_callout() {
var api = window.opener.top.getScriptFrame();
(api)?
api.callout_handler_1() :
alert('Sorry, can not do it. Have you closed the DCR?');
self.close();
}
</script>

Do Something...

);

// *** Callout1.ipl. Modify Perl's shebang below and place in /iwhome/httpd/iw-bin ***
#!/Your Path to IWHOME/iw-perl/bin/iwperl
use strict;

print qq(Content-type: text/html\n\n

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function modify_dcr() {
var api = window.opener.top.getScriptFrame();
(api)?
api.callback(document.getElementById('my_text').value) :
alert('Sorry, can not do it. Have you closed the DCR?');
self.close();
}
</script>

);

[/php]