He is right this is not necessarily a Turbine specific question, but we have done what
you are looking for.
Tony O.
Here is another solution if you want to do more than just display a static page within
the IFrame. We have a web page with standard html controls as the page header and an
adobe pdf viewer embedded within the Iframe. We have also displayed other various
child web pages within the IFrame.
Embed the IFrame within a table cell (on the parent form) using, (note the NAME and
SRC attributes are important).
<IFRAME NAME="frame0"
SRC="about:blank"
width=860
height=565
marginwidth=0
marginheight=0
frameborder=0
style="background:#EEEEEE none;"
SCROLLING="auto">
</IFRAME>
Include a <body> tag on the parent form as follows... <body onload="loadIFrame();">
Once the parent form is loaded it will fire off the following javascript method. (The
javascript needs to be including in the parent form)
The javascript will write the contents of the concatenated html string variable
directly to the IFrame. This will cause the contents of the html string to initially
load and display within the IFrame. Note that this html contains its own
onload="doneWithDummyFormSetup();" statement. Once the IFrame is initially loaded
this event causes it to submit another Turbine request to populate the IFrame with
whatever you want.
<SCRIPT>
function loadIFrame() {
var html = '';
## add an event that can be fired off when the intial contents of the
## iframe have completed loading with the dummy form, this will force the iframe
to submit
## a second request (which will be for the actual PDF)
##
## this is really just a way to get the desired event to fire off at the correct
time
## once the main form has initially appeard on the screen
##
## note that this function is within the scope of the iframe itself
html += ' <SCRIPT> ';
html += ' function doneWithDummyFormSetup() { ';
html += ' window.top.loadActualPDF(); ';
html += ' } ';
html += ' <\/SCRIPT> ';
## initially load the iframe with a dummy form so that we can get a handle to
something within
## the iframe (that allows request submittals), so that we can submit a second
request (through
## the iframe itself) for the actual PDF
html += ' <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="screen.css" title="Screen
Styles" media="screen"> ';
html += ' <body onload="doneWithDummyFormSetup();"> ';
html += ' <form name="displayForm" id="displayForm" method="post"
action="$link.setPage("DisplaySingleWorkOrder.vm").setAction("DisplaySingleWorkOrderAction")">
';
html += ' <table width="860" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
summary=""> ';
html += ' <tr> ';
html += ' <td width="100%"> <\/td> ';
html += ' <\/tr> ';
html += ' <tr> ';
html += ' <td width="100%"> <\/td> ';
html += ' <\/tr> ';
html += ' <tr> ';
html += ' <td align="center" width="100%"><b>Please Wait Loading Work
Order...<\/b><\/td> ';
html += ' <\/tr> ';
html += ' <\/table>';
html += ' <\/form> ';
html += ' <\/body> ';
frame0.document.open();
frame0.document.write(html);
frame0.document.close();
}
function loadActualPDF() {
/* this function does a submit through the iframe in order to load it */
/* with the pdf for the current workorder_id */
## get a reference to frame0 and force it to submit its own request
## get a valid reference to the form within the iframe
var displayFormObject = frame0.document.forms["displayForm"];
if (displayFormObject != null) {
## check to see if the form has already been submitted by checking for a
## dummy form element
var mySubmit = displayFormObject.elements["zzz_form_submit"];
if (mySubmit == null) {
## add a dummy form element so that we can test for re-dundant form
submissions
var oInput=frame0.document.createElement("input");
oInput.type = "hidden";
oInput.name = "zzz_form_submit";
oInput.id = "zzz_form_submit";
oInput.value = "1";
displayFormObject.appendChild(oInput);
var oEvent=frame0.document.createElement("input");
oEvent.type = "hidden";
oEvent.name = "eventSubmit_doDisplay";
oEvent.id = "eventSubmit_doDisplay";
oEvent.value = "Something";
displayFormObject.appendChild(oEvent);
## submit a Display request so that the iframe form
## loads the pdf
displayFormObject.submit();
}
}
}
</SCRIPT>
If you are curious how to display the PDF here is the Turbine action class event code.
We are pre-generating and storing the PDF's within a database BLOB field, but you
should be able to read in any document and send it.
public void doDisplay (RunData data, Context context) throws Exception {
// pull up the PDF from here and display it, since we do not want
// to be pushing any of the pdf data into the session
SearchDataHandler searchData = (SearchDataHandler) getFormHandler(data,
context);
Row searchRow = searchData.getRow();
if (searchRow == null) {
return;
}
String workOrderId = searchRow.getColumn("workorder_id");
if (workOrderId.equals("0") == false) {
RowCollection pdfRc = new RowCollection();
RowCollectionSQLLoaderSaver ls = new
RowCollectionSQLLoaderSaver(RowCollectionSQLLoaderSaver.ORACLE);
String query = "SELECT pdf_image FROM jpa_job_workorder_pdf WHERE
workorder_id = " + workOrderId;
ConnectionHandler ch = new ConnectionHandler();
Connection conn = ch.getConnection(dbInstance);
ls.appendCollection(pdfRc, query.toString(), conn);
ch.releaseConnection();
Row row = pdfRc.getRow(1);
if (row != null) {
byte[] pdf = (byte[]) row.getColumnObject("pdf_image");
ServletOutputStream outputStream =
data.getResponse().getOutputStream();
HttpServletResponse response = data.getResponse();
//response.setHeader("Content-disposition-type", "attachment");
// either one of the following approaches works correctly
// response.setHeader("Content-type", "application/pdf");
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "filename=WorkOrder" +
workOrderId + ".pdf");
response.setIntHeader("Content-length", pdf.length);
outputStream.write(pdf, 0, pdf.length);
outputStream.flush();
}
}
}
