New window and naviagtion from s:link

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Hi All,

I have a s:link to open a pdf in a new window. It is working fine, but when I click on the link actually I need two things to happen.

1 It should open a new window to display the PDF
2 The actual page in which the s:link is displayed should go to a new page(I mean the actual page).

Now I have a link to show the pdf and a button just for navigate to another page. I need to avoid user clicking on the button to move to next page.

Anybody knows how I can do this.

Advanced Thanks

[danielrowe]

You might try opening the new PDF window with a javascript function invoked by using "onclick" in the s:link, and then doing normal navigation from the s:link to get to your new page.

Something like this:

|<s:lin|k value="Show PDF" onclick="startPDF(#{pdf.id}); return true" action="some_action_that_take_you_to_new_page"/>

Depending on how you can access your pdf, you may have to use some Seam remoting (or maybe you can do it more simply in a single javascript function -- I'm not sure).  Here is the remoting way I've used for something similar:

<s:remote include="PDFManager"/>
   
<script>
<!--
function startPDF(pdfId){
   var pdfManager = Seam.Component.getInstance("PDFManager");
  
   pdfManager.setPDF(pdfId,popupPDFWindow);
}

function popupPDFWindow(){
   var cmd = '/gbmdrc/pdfWindow.seam';
   window.open(cmd,'PDF','toolbar=0,modal=1,dialog=1,scrollbars=1,alwaysRaised=1,width=840,height=480,resizable=1');
}
// -->
</script>

In your manager bean:

public void setPDF(Long pdfId) {
   // Do something in here to allow pdfWindow.xhtml to get at the rendered ||PDF file
}

Hope this helps!

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Thank you Daniel Rowe