These are steps I need to take in order to maintain a connection between a parent window and its child window:

1. User comes in to parent window where the hidden field value is set to "" and makes some changes to the form.
2. User clicks on a button to bring up a popup window but I need to save the changes he made to the parent window first.
3. I use javascript to update the parent window and then the parent window is reloaded with the user's changes.

HERE IS MY PROBLEM:
4. I then have to change the hidden field value on the reloaded form.

5. Check the value of the hidden field value.
6. Run the function that then opens a popup window from that reloaded form and therefore keeping all the values I need to pass on to the popup window.

How do I accomplish step #4?

I have been trying to get around this issue in various ways but to no avail. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Your process sounds over complicated. I think I understand what you are trying to do however do not understand why you would do it this way. If I may ask, why do you need the child window?

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Matt

You are absolutely correct that this is an overly complicated process. Why I need it to work this way is because when the parent form is saved with the changes that the user made, the customer then wanted the process to then open a pop-up window so that they can add Items to the requisition which is the parent window and then I pass back the info in the child window to the parent window.

That is the reason I need this to work. Hope that helps. Is there any way to accomplish what I'm needing to do. The hidden field was the only thing I could think of whereby I could note if I'm in the parent window when it is executed originally or after it has been reloaded. I'm open to any other way to detect whether a page has been reloaded based on event that has taken place and then allowing me to open the pop-up window I'm needing.

Well you get a reference to the field using either document.getElementById() or document.forms[0].elements[0] or whatever and then set the element's value attribute.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Joe,

Thanks for the reply. However, how do I change that element when the page is "reloaded". I want the page, when accessed originally, to have the hidden field with a value of "". Then when the page is reloaded, set the value to "whatever" so then I can run the function that then brings up the popup window.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks again!

We finally got this to work. We are using the Stripes framework within our java environment and because Stripes can maintain state we were finally able to reset the hidden field value.

Thanks for the replies and time.

Regards.