Clearing out Frames

I have a Dashboard page with 4 frames, opening clockwise:

IFRAME1 = Bar Graph
IFRAME2 = Pie or Bar Graph
IFRAME3 = Bar Graph
IFRAME4 = Excel

As the user clicks on a Bar riser or Pie slice, the drilldown opens in the next frame on the same page.

Scenario:

After the user has opened all 4 frames with selections, they then click on another selection in Frame 1 or 2:

My question:

If the user clicks on Frame1, I want to clear out Frames 3 and 4 as Frame 2 is populated
If the user clicks on Frame2, I want to clear out Frame 4 as Frame 3 is populated

This IS NOT an !IBI.FIL.HOLD application, it is all built in HTML Painter, with drilldowns...
Nor is directing the user to select RESET to clear out all the frames an option...

Any suggestions would be appreciated...

Tom Flynn
WebFOCUS 8.1.05 - PROD/QA
DB2 - AS400 - Mainframe

Posts: 1972 | Location: Centennial, CO | Registered: January 31, 2006

Francis Mariani

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Couldn't you simply load an HMTL page that is an empty page into the iframes using a JS OnClick event handler? You know the names of the iframes, so you could do sumfing like this:

<select ... onClick="iframe1.location='approot/demo/empty.html';iframe2.location='approot/demo/empty.html';">

Francis

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Tom Flynn

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Francis,

Sorry it took awhile to respond; thanks for your input.

I thought I would share our success as this may assist someone down the road.

My frames are:

1 ---> 2

3 ---> 4

opening in 1,2,4,3 order....

Added 2 JS functions with <SCRIPT tags:

function blankFrames() {
document.all.iframe3.src = '';
document.all.iframe4.src = '';
}
function blankFrame3() {
document.all.iframe3.src = '';
}

then, in the focexec, graph2, this cleared frames 3 & 4:

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY language=javascript onload=parent.blankFrames()>
</BODY>
</HTML>
-HTMLFORM END

then, in the focexec, graph4, this cleared frame 3:

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY language=javascript onload=parent.blankFrame3()>
</BODY>
</HTML>
-HTMLFORM END

Special THANKS to Richard Thompson of IBI, who gets ALL the credit!!!

Tom

Tom Flynn
WebFOCUS 8.1.05 - PROD/QA
DB2 - AS400 - Mainframe

Posts: 1972 | Location: Centennial, CO | Registered: January 31, 2006

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