Is it possible to push an entry into the browser history with vbscript after pressing the render report button in SRSS?
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Scenario:
I enter a web page
Page shows desired content for a few seconds
It reloads and opens another web page (within the same tab, no new tab is fired - usually an ad)
I press the back button and the desired page opens again
How can i block this behaviour having only the desired page displayed, without reloading.
What actually causes this? I have some extensions for blocking redirects, but they work only on new tab redirects.
I am also a software engineer so a technical explanation would help me, if possible.
I have a report PDF created using SSRS with images and I have defiend the Action - Go to Url on all the images. When clicked on the pictures I need the url to open in a new tab rather than same tab while viewing the pdf from Chrome or IE.
I tried the javascript:window.open but it doesn't work. I mean it just opens a blank new tab but not the actual URL this is when viewd from adobe however when tried to view the same from Chrome it doesn't even give me the option to click.
My URL Expression
="javascript:void window.open('https://www.gocanvas.com/values/5246297662','_blank')"
My web application is mimicing the UI of my desktop application, flow is as follows
Select Task in browser window
Change any Options and then start
Show Progress in same browser window, the progress bar goess back to server every 5 seconds checking progress.
When task has completed we show report in new tab
and go back to Select task Window,
this is done by running following Javascript in progress page
window.open('/start','_self'); window.open('/reporturl','_blank');
This works fine on my PC but when trying on Safari on OSX and on Android phone and iPad one of two things happen
The progress page becomes the start page but the report page is not opened in tab
The Progress page becomes the report page
My question is does opening window in new tab with _blank have all the problems of using popup windows. If so should I modify my prcoess so that at stage 3 it just displays report page, and then add a back button or navigable footer to the report to allow user to get back to start page ?
I can think of some options you could use instead of new tab.
Modal with Ajax
-- With jQuery it is posible to open modal
dialogs they can be populated with html (or other data) fetched with ajax (async). I am a big fan of these and use them all over my projects. Users will not be annoyed with pop-up warning messages, etc. Once the content is read (or whatever) the user can simply close the dialog. (If I had to make your app I would certainly implement this).
Besides the jQuery dialogs, other modal/dialog scripts are out there. Check out Bootstrap Modal if you like it modern.
Serve report as download
-- Depending on what the user can/will do with the report, it might be interesting to write the report page in a way that it sends back a .pdf file, or another type of file, as download. Loading the URL in a new tab will now always start a download. Triggering this from JS without user interaction might be a problem though (same as with pop-up / new tab). Adding a button to trigger the download on complete will solve this.
I know the question was about the use of tabs.. But try to avoid it. Browsers handle it all in their own way. And many users get confused when suddenly stuff is opening in tabs when they did not ask for it. In case of pop-ups, it is possible for users to turn them of or convert into opening a new tab from within the browser settings. If they have been fiddling with browser defaults, you'll have troubles of keeping the 'flow' of the app the same for all users (and cross browser).
How to get a warning massage if i accidently click the close button of the chrome browser which have multiple tabs opened at that time?
I am a regular user of Crome and having this problem while using it. I normally open multiple tabs inside a single browser but sometimes i accidently click the close button of browser and as soon as the button is clicked crome does't give any warning issue about multiple active tabs and close the entire window.
Is the end user like me is browsing on normal crome window then he can open the websites again by checking the web history but if he is browsing inside private browser then he can't do anything(this happens with me very regularly because i normally browse in private browser). On the other hand if you accidently click the close button in mozilla which have multiple tabs open it throws a warning massage to the user and asks for his wish.
Go find an extension called "Keep One Pinned Tab". It may not be exactly the function you need, but if you search for other extensions, I am sure there is such an extension that does just that. If you can't find one, I suggest to learn how to develop extensions and make one yourself, you can share it with others when it's done.
Chrome extension popups are designed per the FAQ to close when clicked away from.
I have a firefox add-on that will remember the text typed into the text area when the popup is clicked open or closed.
I assume this is the case because the popup merely opens and closes the html, as opposed to the chrome version which calls window.onload each time.
The chrome extension popup however seems to call popup.js each time you click the icon, which I assume is because popup.js is linked from popup.html because page scripts have to be "moved out" in chrome for security.
Is there a way to keep data typed into a textbox, when the extension reloads and "erases" the text?
Anytime the content of the textarea changes, store the new value in localStorage. When the popup loads again, check local storage for a value and populate the textarea.