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[OPEN ISSUE] WF 8 BIP: Annoying thing about html page launched from a link in a BIP

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December 18, 2014, 10:32 AM
Francis Mariani
[OPEN ISSUE] WF 8 BIP: Annoying thing about html page launched from a link in a BIP
I'm seeing this annoying behaviour quite a bit and cannot find a solution:

I have a hyperlink to a hand-built HTML page in a BIP block. I click on the hyperlink, the HTML page opens in a new window. The HTML page has a multi-select jQuery tree control (I couldn't use the HTML Composer tree control since it was single-select in v7.7). The tree control takes a long time to load - the JavaScript is a little slow.

If I decide to close the window while the tree control is loading, I get an IE9 error: "A problem with this webpage caused Internet Explorer to close and reopen the tab".

The html page I closed is not in a tab, it's a separate window.

This will happen with any window that has JavaScript running while you close the window.

This did not happen in B.I. Dashboard 7.

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Francis


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December 19, 2014, 10:40 AM
TomS.
I have experienced the same behavior when closing an IA window before it's able to fill in with sample data.

Also using IE9.


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December 19, 2014, 12:24 PM
Francis Mariani
Tom, thanks for confirming the issue. It didn't happen in WF 7.

When we finally migrated to WF 8, my manger, the Director of Data Management & Reporting Systems logged in and went straight to the parameter screen that uses WF to populate a jQuery hierarchy tree. He quickly got bored so closed that parameter screen, which triggered the portal refresh and alarm bells!

No solution so far.


Francis


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December 19, 2014, 01:48 PM
TomS.
It's funny I hadn't experienced this issue (or maybe just didn't notice) until after reading your post.

At this point it doesn't appear to be a big problem with users so I'm holding off on digging in to far on this one. Will be sure to add if I end up finding anything.

-T


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