Re: Changing response targets with flow

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

On 1 Jan 2004, at 23:25, Hunsberger, Peter wrote:

Upayavira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hunsberger, Peter wrote:

Any idea if it would be possible to devise a way to alter the target
frame for a response in the flow?  In particular, we have
some search
screens that show their results in different frame. If a
request fails
validation I'd like it to return to the original frame and
not show the
results in the other frame.  So, in this case I'd just like
to remove
the target frame if the request fails validation.

Peter Hunsberger


I might be wrong, but I think your thinking is wrong here.

You cannot control (from in flow) the frame that a page is
presented in,
because the browser does a request for a specific frame, and that's
where the result will be shown.
To achieve what you want, you'd have to do it with some client side
javascript. Send back a response including some javascript that makes
the browser reload the other frame.
Hope this makes sense.
Yah, that makes sense, probably a little too much "grog" last night to
be thinking straight...  I was hoping there might be some header or
other http level setting that the browser would use to determine what
the target frame was for.
Nop, there is no such thing. This is yet another of the two thousand 
reasons on why you should never be using frames but you should be doing 
server side aggreation (where you *do* have full control on what 
happens).

--
Stefano.