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Preventing UI refresh when working with Framesets		Date*
07/08/2000		Source (or email address if you prefer)*
Rlatulippe@romac.com
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On the Web instead of having your forms reload constantly, create a Frameset where one frame has a size of zero. Open a form in each frame. Using JavaScript to react to button presses or other actions, move the data you want to submit to the hidden frame and force the submit of that document. Now your UI doesn't refresh and the user still executes the submit action.		Type*
JavaScript		Categories*
(Misc)
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For example, the top frame, frame[0], might have a button with the formula:

  OnClick='parent.frames[1].additem("some value")'

This would execute a JavaScript routine in the bottom hidden frame such as:

  function additem(str) {
           document.forms[0].cartRow.value = str;
           document.forms[0].submit()
  }

The submitted document does something useful (loggs an event, updates a document, updates a profile, etc.) and in it's $$Return field you simply create another form so the user can submit again and again without affecting the visible display. A $$Return value might be:

      "[/" + @RepalceSubstring)@Subset(@DbName;-1);" " : "\\" ; "+" : "/") +
      "/ThisFormName?OpenForm]"