pass value form child form to parent

[Steve James]

Is it possible to set a field value in a parent form from a form that is being displayed in a dialog?

I have a "parent form". At some point I have an event that opens a child form in a dialog.

I have a beforeClose event and I want to continue action in my parent form based on what occurred in the dialog form.

I've done this in the past with checking the html of the dialog form and it could be done by setting cookie etc

Is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks

[Jon]

You can use client side Javascript window.parent e.g. when you close the popup dialog:

// Set an input field value directly with jQuery
window.parent.$("fieldId").val("xxx");

// set field value on server and refresh
window.parent.$eb.setFieldValue("fieldname", value, true)

[Steve James]

Excellent thanks Jon.