I am a fairly new webfocus developer and I've inherited numerous webfocus reports (original developers are gone.) My terminology may be wrong, but here it goes.

I have a search screen (html) where the users enter search parameters. From the search screen a fex file is called that passes the search parameters to another HTML file. The final html file displays the search summary at the top of the screen with a listing of results at the bottom of the screen. From there the user can drill down through the listing to other HTML screens or PDF reports, etc.

My problem is, if the user clicks the back button, the HTML page attempts to load the listing again and never returns from loading. What it should do is return the user back to the search screen. I have a link to do this, but need to be able to handle the user's clicking the back button from this screen or other screens (after drilling down).

I've been reading numerous posts about the back button, but can't seem to find if there is a way I can capture and handle this with javascript or anything else.

Thanks for any advice.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

I don't know if this is considered acceptable for User Interfaces, but for this type of screen I open a new window that does not have the normal web browser toolbar - so no back button. With JavaScript you can also disable right-click, so the user would not be able to select Back from the context menu...

How do I open an html page from a fex file in a new window? From the fex file it does this...


-SET &&ARB_DISTRICT = '&ARB_DISTRICT.EVAL' ;
-HTMLFORM detail_report.htm

You will also have to stop backspace in some circumstances, as well as alt left/right arrow.