auto close a form/browser window without user interaction

neilnewman · #1

I have an Ebase form that is being called by a Powershell script on a regular basis.
Is there a way to auto close the form/browser window once it has completed without user interaction.

#2

You need to run some Javascript on the client to close the window, something like window.close(), but I think there are some technical issues with this. From an Ebase point of view, you could set up a new page, add an HTML control containing:

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<script type="text/javascript">
    window.close&#40;&#41;;
</script>

then just go to the new page.

But as I said above, you may find that window.close() doesn't do the job for some reason. You may need to google the exact Javascript to use.

Segi · #3

I do something very similar to what Jon suggested. I put an HTML control on the page that I want to close and don't enter any HTML at the time that I add it to the page. When it is time to close it, I do something like this in the JavaScript event:

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control.CLOSEWINDOW.htmlText.setText&#40;'<HTML><BODY><SCRIPT>window.close&#40;&#41;;</SCRIPT></BODY><HTML>'&#41;;

This will immediately close the window

neilnewman · #4

I got it to work with the following code:
<script>
window.top.close();
</script>

Many thanks
Neil

HarryDeBoer · #5

another (Ebase) way of doing this is by using the Ebase scheduler with the form runner if you don't have user interactions.

Steve James · #6

Just another approach.

We have a series of .net web services (outside of Ebase) that integrate various systems.
We have some Ebase form writers who needed a mechanism to regularly call Ebase forms that don't require human interaction. We were using Ebase scheduler but support for using multiple approaches was problematic.

Solution, we have a .net web service that calls Ebase forms via HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse (could equally well be Powershell Invoke-WebRequest).

The issue was that the response was only the browsercheck web page and the actual form wasn't being called, as we have an Ebase 'intergration' environment we were able to set Ufs.skipBrowserAttributesCheck=true which means the actual form is called without browser and the web service can interrogate the response and process accordingly.

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auto close a form/browser window without user interaction

auto close a form/browser window without user interaction

Thanks for the pointers

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