window.close() in XPages

Question

I am having a Xpage with some links. One of my link call EXIT having window.close() to close the current tab in browser.

In browser when I am opening the document(Xpage holds the document) from the view and clicking on the EXIT link, it closes the current tab/window.

Whereas, I am redirecting the same xpage from SSJS using context.redirectToPage() . When I clicking on the EXIT link, it is not closing the tab/window.

In Javascript console: Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script

Anyone help me.

Thanks in Advance, Karthick

See my answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9682492/how-do-i-close-my-window-in-xpage — D.Bugger, Apr 11 '12 at 12:14

Per Henrik Lausten · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-11T14:47:46.930

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As the Javascript console says: Window.close() needs a window.open() to work.

See http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/Whats_New_in_852_for_XPages#window.close%28%29+support

Update: You can create your response document using client-side JS - including opening the window. The following will do that:

// get parent document id    
docid='#{javascript:document.getNoteID()}';

// create the URL
url="response.xsp?action=newDocument&parentId="+docid;

// open a new window with the response document
window.open(url);

edited Apr 11 '12 at 14:47

answered Apr 11 '12 at 07:21

Per Henrik Lausten

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I am creating a response document for the current document when clicking on the link. The only way is that I have redirected the page. So any other solution to make is work...? – flykarthick Apr 11 '12 at 12:46
Thanks... I will try this out... Whereas I am pushing more than 65 field values from parent document to response document before opening, so that I went for SSJS... I will try pushing those values in afterPageLoad of the response document... Any other simpler way to do this...? – flykarthick Apr 12 '12 at 05:12
You could look at creating the response document in a dialog in order to avoid opening a new window. Good luck with your solution. – Per Henrik Lausten Apr 12 '12 at 06:43

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 11 '12 at 08:39

"In Javascript console: Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script"

Thats you're answer to the question. Javascript can't close tabs / windows which are not created by javascript.

You could try the following:

How to close browser window

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 30 '14 at 01:27

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you can try this trick im using.

window.open('', '_self', '');

window.close();

edited Jul 30 '14 at 01:27

songyuanyao

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answered Jul 30 '14 at 01:06

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window.close() in XPages

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