when i refresh the screen, it takes me to the login screen. How can I reload the same page with updated data without going back to the login page?

After login are u setting some variables as an indicator that user has logged in?


Om Prakash

I am storing user name and permissions in the session variables. Can that cause problem? If yes, then what is the alternative way to do it.

Thanks

Renu,

Can you explain your problem and how your application is set up in a little more detail? Simply refreshing the page shouldn't cause your to be logged out unless you don't have the application set up.

I have a login page, where user logs in and I store the username and the access permissions (like access to update/delete the records later) in session variables. I use these session variables to decide what all controls/buttons to make visible. Then on any page if i hit the refresh screen, I am brought back to the login page. So, i have to log in again to get in. I have not set anything in my application to show the first page if refresh is hit. In fact i don't even know how to do that.
Please let me know what I need to do, so that it stays on the same page.
thanks a lot!

Coiuld it be a problem because I am using frames?

Very much so. When you hit refresh, you are refreshing the page in the outermost window of the browser, and thus, the page that contains the frameset. Presumably, your frameset contains the login page in the frame where you are expecting to see the page you were just on before refresh. You can refresh the page inside the frame by right-clicking inside the frame, then choosing "Refresh".

Ya! That worked! But, it won't be nice to ask users to right click and select refresh. Is there a work around this problem. It is hard for me now to change the frames. What else can be done. May be add a refresh button on the screen...I don't even like that. I tried adding meta tag to refresh the screen every 5 seconds, but it flickers. And after adding smartnavigation="true" (as I have a large form) for page, it stops automatically refreshing it. If it can refresh after every 5 seconds itself with (smartnavigation="true"), then my problem is solved. Is it possible?

The prolem is that smart navigation is really only useful for a postback. You could simulate the meta refresh functionality and incorporate smart navigation by putting some javascript on the page that automatically calls some postback method based on a time interval. Try this out:

<script language="javascript">
setTimeout("<%=Page.GetPostbackEventReference(Me) %>", 5000);
</script>

This creates a simple call to the setTimeout method with a postback reference for the page and a timeout of 5 seconds. This causes a standard postback to happen automatically every 5 seconds. The relevant HTML for the rendered output of the page looks like this:

<script language="javascript">
setTimeout("__doPostBack('','')", 5000);
</script>