TS6.1: CCP: Custom menu CGI forcing refresh of CCP

Adam Stoller · 2004-05-19T13:30:05+00:00

Environment Server: TS6.1 (build 33333) on Solaris 8Client: Mozilla 1.6 on MacOS 10.3 Background I've got a pretty trivial custom menu CGI script that "touches" selected files.Because this should modify at least the icon if not the last modified timestamp and modified by aspects of the CCP GUI, I also want to have my CGI…

Adam Stoller

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

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Adam Stoller

Revised information - still looking for answers ...

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

gzevin

Adam,

I don't know how to do this - however my earlier experience with TS 6 and the replies from the engineering has made me believe that this was an intended behaviour - to use the browser functionality to refresh. and, as such, the browser refreshes everything....

Greg Zevin, Ph.D. Comp. Sc.
Independent Interwoven Consultant/Architect
Sydney, AU

Adam Stoller

Unfortunately - the original problem remains - which is that sometimes (I'm still not entirely sure how to reliably recreate) if you navigate around and then select a file and run this custom menu item .... when the window refreshes you are no longer in the same working directory that you were when you invoked the custom menu item!

There *must* be a way to retrieve/set some sort of 'state' that indicates the current working directory.

Feel free to play around with the attached (in CCPro on 6.x) and see if you can recreate the problem.

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

Michael

Is it just me or when you try and download ghoti's attachment do you get an error page -- shown below:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmasters@interwoven.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/2.0.47 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.47 OpenSSL/0.9.7a Server at dnetsv01.interwoven.com Port 80

(URL was http://devnet.interwoven.com/data/forums/attachments/37-50110-doed_cm_touch.cgi.txt

Johnny

I just got that too.

John Cuiuli

Adam Stoller

**** - so did I - let me try again and see if it works this time ...

Nope - this fails too ... I'll check with Lissa

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

Edited by ghoti on 02/02/05 07:32 AM (server time).

Adam Stoller

Sigh - well, in the meantime I guess I can just post it all here - but I was hoping to avoid that - however:

#!/usr/app/iwov/teamsite/iw-perl/bin/iwperl
########################################
# This script is to be located in IWHOME/httpd/iw-bin
# and made executable (you may need to adjust the top
# line to point to your iwperl
#
# This uses the following settings in ui_custom.xml
#
#<iwov-ui>
# <action-list id="iw.ccpro.filesys.menubar">
# <menu id="iw.ccpro.doed.menu" label="DoED">
# <link id="doed.cm.touch.link"
# label="Touch File"
# description="Mark selected files as modified"
# url="/iw-bin/iw_cgi_wrapper.cgi/doed_cm_touch.cgi"
# target="_blank"
# windowFeatures="width=600,height=400,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes"
# operationID="cm.doed.touch.op"/>
# </menu>
# </action-list>
#</iwov-ui>
#
#
# PROBLEM:
# Sometimes, I'm not entirely sure how to reproduce, if you navigate around
# CCPro and then select a file and use this custom menu item, when it
# refreshes the CCPro UI (parent.window.top.location.reload(), it causes
# the CCPro UI to refresh to a *different* directory than where you were
# when you initiated the custom menu item!
#
# I would like to have the refresh/reload work ONLY on the 'main' portion
# of the UI rather than reloading the *entire* browser window - but even
# if we can't get that - we need it to maintain the current working directory
# after the refresh.
############################################
use strict;
use warnings;
use TeamSite::CGI_lite;

$|=1;

my $cgi = TeamSite::CGI_lite->new();
$cgi->parse_data();

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print qq(<html>\n<body bgcolor='white'>\n);

my @filelist;
my @dirlist;
my $touched = 0;
my $msg = '';
print "<center>\n";
(my $apath = $cgi->{form}{"cwd.vpath"}) =~ s|^//[^/]+||;
$apath =~ s|(/WORKAREA/[^/]+)/.*$|$1|;
if($cgi->{form}{vpath} ne $cgi->{form}{"cwd.vpath"}){
# something was pre-selected
my $vp = $cgi->{form}{vpath};
my @vps;
push(@vps, (ref($vp) eq "ARRAY") ? @$vp : $vp);
foreach(@vps){
(my $fs_path = $_) =~ s|^//[^/]+||;
(my $rel_path = $fs_path) =~ s|^$apath||;
if (-d $fs_path){
push(@dirlist, $fs_path); # type = directory
}
elsif (-f $fs_path){
my $filename = $cgi->escape_html_data($fs_path);
qx(/usr/bin/touch $filename);
push(@filelist, $fs_path);
}
}
print qq(
<script type="text/javascript">
//try to access window.opener if can't/if exception set to opener null
//this avoids JS errors being reported to the users
try {
var x = window.opener.name;
}
catch (e) {
window.opener = null;
}

if (window.opener != null && ! window.opener.closed) {
//use local refresh fucntion if available
if (window.opener.iw_refresh != null) {
window.opener.iw_refresh();
} else {
window.opener.top.location.reload();
}
}
</script>\n);

}
else {
print("<h2 align='center'><font color='red'><b><i>You must pre-select\n",
"at least one file before using this command.<p /></i><b></font></h2>\n");
}
if (@dirlist){
print("<h2 align='center'>The following entries were skipped,\n",
"as this command does not process directories</h2>:\n",
join("<br />\n", @dirlist), "<br />\n");
}
if (@filelist){
print("<h2 align='center'>The time stamps have been set to 'now' for\n",
"the following files:</h2>", join("<br />\n", @filelist),
"<br />\n");
}
print qq(<form><br /><br />
<p><input type=button value='Close' onClick='self.close()'>
</form>
</center>
</body>
</html>
);

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

Adam Stoller

Well - I'm going to keep on asking until I get this resolved.

Support seems to be saying that the problem is I'm using "old-style" CGI scripts or some such - which doesn't make sense to me (I've asked for a clarification, still waiting for the response).

Failing that - another option I'm considering is to remove the 'target="_blank"' from the specification in ui_custom.xml and have the CGI pop-up inside the CCPro UI window. However, if I do that, I need to know how to correctly close and refresh from there?

Anybody done this - and have some code that they can share?

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

shanon

i did this for a bunch of custom work in TS 5.5.2.. one example is a custom delete DCR menu item, which at the end refreshed the file list so that the deleted file would disappear...

i hacked it; i viewed source on 5.5.2 and found the refresh button... it called this function in JS:

top.Ctl.pw_refresh();

so i just called that from my menuitem a la opener.top.Ctl.pw_refresh().

soooooo, i've got 6.5 and i'm looking at the html source, there's no refresh button, but there are tons of js functions ...

i see two js function that can hook it up:

function fs_get_current_vpath()
{
return new ts_vpath(document.getElementById("fs_location_internal").value);
}

function fs_navigate_to_vpath(vpath)
{
var list_url = fs_get_list_base_href_for_vpath(vpath);
list_url.set_parameter("vpath", vpath);
list_url.do_get(fs_get_list_frame());
return false;
}

try calling that from your menuitem like this:

opener.top.fs_navigate_to_vpath(opener.top.fs_get_current_vpath());

I would assume that will hook it up. Please post back and let me know.

*** Disclaimer: this is total hackery and could get changed with a patch ***

Good luck.

Shanon

Shanon Levenherz
Mercer eBusiness Team
shanon.levenherz@mercer.com
http://www.mercerhr.com

shanon

i was just playing around with 6.5...

you can refresh the interface using this URL:

http://10.203.51.31/iw-cc/command/iw.ccpro.filesys

and passing a vpath:

http://10.203.51.31/iw-cc/command/iw.ccpro.filesys?vpath=//server-name/blah/blah

that works too... you get the current vpath using the "cwd.vpath" form variable in your menuitem... just pass that back using:

opener.top.location.href="http://10.203.51.31/iw-cc/command/iw.ccpro.filesys?vpath=...."

that should work and is a bit less hacky that using unpublished js functions.. although i think the js could be pretty fun... Smiley Happy

shanon

Shanon Levenherz
Mercer eBusiness Team
shanon.levenherz@mercer.com
http://www.mercerhr.com

Adam Stoller

Bless you!
You were close - but close enough for me to get it....
print qq(<script type="text/javascript">
//try to access window.opener if cannot/if exception set to opener null
//this avoids JS errors being reported to the users
try {
var x = window.opener.name;
}
catch(e) {
window.opener = null;
}
if (window.opener != null && ! window.opener.closed){
//use local refresh function if available
if (window.opener.iw_refresh != null) {
window.opener.iw_refresh();
} else {
window.opener.fs_navigate_to_vpath(window.opener.fs_get_current_vpath());
}
}
</script>\n);NOTE: You need the window. before the opener....
NOTE: You do not want the top. after opener
NOTE: much of the other code in the above example is legacy stuff - which probably doesn't apply anymore (e.g. the window.opener.iw_refresh piece) - but I figure it doesn't hurt to leave it there for now.
NOTE: This unfortunately does not appear to be documented, which means that it probably is not officially supported - but I'll see about getting something official done about this in my open support case.

Thanks again!

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

shanon

nice! good stuff. this is a very usable tidbit of knowledge... hopefully other peeps will take advantage as I will ... Smiley Happy

Shanon Levenherz
Mercer eBusiness Team
shanon.levenherz@mercer.com
http://www.mercerhr.com

parsan99

Hello

I tried this code out and it worked like a charm in CCPRO.. However CCSTD seems to have trouble with the following JS. Any clues/suggestions?.

window.opener.fs_navigate_to_vpath(window.opener.fs_get_current_vpath());

Thanks for the help.