Hi

I have got a page that redirects users depending on their NT group memebership e.g

Case "Group A"
Response.redirect("Y.asp")

I need to redirect some of them to a page and that needs to open in a new window... This does not seem possible with VBS? Maybe add a JS function? Any sugestions welcome

Regards
Marnus

Such is Life!

Response.Redirect is only going to work within the existing window. Instead, you need to write out some javascript to open the new window when the page is redrawn. Instead of redirecting, you just write out the JS.

window.open(...)

But watch out for popup blockers.

Peter
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Hi

I have been using this method for a while now but it seems like popup stoppers is starting to cause problems. Is there any other way to open a new IE window without the popup stoppers blocking it?

Regards
Marnus

There is a target attribute for HREF. You can set its value as _blank to open the link in a new window. For e.g. this link will open in a new window.
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com" target="_blank">Microsoft web site</a>

If you want to submit a form to a new page, the same attribute can be used in form tag.

BTW, could you please give some more details about the particular programming situation ? Then somebody may be able to give you better solution.

function ak_forecolor()
    {
        var mycolor = showModalDialog(subdirectory + "insertcolors.html", "", ");

    }

this function wil be open a windows of that file


Numan
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Hi Marnus,

I too can't think of anything other than Javascript - window.open(...) method to achieve this. May be you can explain more an what you are trying to do, so that one would come up with alternative solutions if any.

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Hi

Thanks for the replies. I have got a customer login page that authenticates on AD Accounts. So if the user logs in I check the group membership. Then I have got a "Select Case" to redirect them to a certian page/build a page depending oj the group. The one page is a Java App that doesnt look nice if it runs on the same page with the frames so I need to open this in a new window.

Regards
Marnus

Use a function and call it in place of response.redirect. Like this...

<%
strLocation = "testlink.asp"

 openlink(strLocation) ' replaces response.redirect
function openlink(link)
%>
<SCRIPT language='javascript'>window.open(' <%=strLocation%> ');</SCRIPT>
<%
end function
%>

Of course you can use all the parameters in the javascript for setting the new window, this is just a simple example of doing it in ASP. You could also use response.write inside of the code block instead of switching to HTML to create the function. your choice.

Only thing you need to put the link in the js of the function because the function doesnt know what strLocation is.
So like this.

function openlink(link)
        %>
        <SCRIPT language='javascript'>window.open(' <%=link%> ');</SCRIPT>
        <%
    end function