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Custom Script Question

drossign

I have a script that gets called from a custom menu item. A user checks off files and directories and then selects the custom menu item. The script recognizes the files that were checked off and adds them to a file list text file that gets used to do a filelist deploy. When the user closes the script window, is it possible to have the files and directories that they had checked be automatically unchecked?

I haven't found an obvious way to do this yet so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave

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Migrateduser

I think if your CGI outputs JavaScript something like this:

parent.top.Ctl.pw_refresh();

before window.close() that may work for 5.5.x; not sure about 6.x.

drossign

I'm using 5.5.2 and I tried that with no success. I get a JavaScript error saying "parent.top.Ctl is null or not an object".

Migrateduser

Is the teamsite browser window that opened the CGI window still open when you get this error? If so you probably just have to play around with the JavaScript syntax to figure out how to reference this function correctly, but it seems like as long as the parent window is open this should be a valid reference.

Adam Stoller

Actually - if you're in WDP - I think the [officially unsupported] command would be:

parent.top.Ctl.pw_msel_clearall();

(found by right-clicking on the "Clear All" button in the GUI and doing a Save Link Target As ...)

You'd probably want to do the parent.top.Ctl.pw_refresh() afterwards though.

For 6.x - (also NOT officially supported) - it looks like you would use something like

list_view.get_instance('filesystem_list').set_all_selected(false);

(View Source on the GUI page)

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

Migrateduser

For some CMIs (such as a custom unlock that also unlocks the associated output files/DCRs) you would want to use refresh instead of unselect if possible so the lock icons are updated.

Adam Stoller

I'm guessing at the 'parent' part - I took that from the other post. When I did my save link target as - what I saw in the dialog box began with ...top - so I assumed there was something before "top" and based on the earlier post - presumed that it was "parent"

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

Adam Stoller

The original query was for showing the files un-selected / un-checked - which is why I pointed out the clearall() function *and* said you'd probably want to do a refresh/redraw afterwards.

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

Migrateduser

Maybe it's window.opener.top instead of parent, I think parent is for JavaScript in a frame as opposed to a new window.

Migrateduser

No offense, just trying to make the reasoning clear. Since I don't expect much performance differential (and anyway files may have been added/removed) I would probably always use refresh.

drossign

The TeamSite window is still open. I've tried:
parent.top.Ctl.pw_refresh();
parent.Ctl.pw_refresh();
parent.top.pw_refresh();
parent.pw_refresh();

all with no luck. Any other ideas?

Migrateduser

sorry, try window.opener.top.Ctl.

drossign

We have a winner!!! window.opener.top.Ctl.pw_refresh() worked. Thank you for all the help.

Adam Stoller

Out of curiosity - does calling the refresh un-select the previously selected files?
Or do you have to do the clearall() too?

NOTE: All of this is unsupported - and will likely NOT work if/when you migrate to 6.x - so make careful notes about where you're depending on these kinds of things so you'll have some idea of what you'll have to spend a bunch of time on again later on.

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

drossign

Calling the refresh does indeed unselect all the selected files so I don't have to do the clearall().

This will be yet another note in the documentation. (-:

Adam Stoller

Hmm - interesting - I guess that explains why when you have multiple files selected and choose an OOTB menu item that expects only one file to be selected, that the selections are lost after the window refreshes... (I always found that annoying - but then I also found the limitation of some of those menu items annoying too ;-)

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