topic Re: Newwindow action in Stored Process Web Application in ODS and Base Reporting

Newwindow action in Stored Process Web Application

Marlis — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:05:55 GMT

Hi,

how can I enforce to always open a new window (= browser tab) for the Output of a Stored Process.

At the moment the situation is:

For the first run of the SP a new browser tab is opened containing the output of the SP.

For the following runs the same browser tab is used as before.

We would prefer to always have the output in a new window, so the previous outputs are still available.

We work with STPBEGIN and ODS HTML.

Thanks,

Marlis

Re: Newwindow action in Stored Process Web Application

Quentin — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:11:16 GMT

Hi,

Depends how you are calling the stored process. But could be as simple as adding target="_blank" to the link.

--Q.

Re: Newwindow action in Stored Process Web Application

Marlis — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:42:46 GMT

Thank you, Quentin!

I tried to intergrate this information into the URL calling the SP.

So I changed

" .... /do?&_program=/ .... " to

" .... /do?&_action=newwindow&target="_blank"&_program=/ .... ".

I tried different versions of syntax (with/without _ or single/double quotation marks).

But nothing has changed.

Does anybody know the right syntax?

Re: Newwindow action in Stored Process Web Application

Quentin — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:48:58 GMT

Hi,

target="_blank" is not part of the URL. It's part of the link. So if you are making a web page that has a link to a stored process, the link in the html file might look like:

<a href="https://myserver/SASStoredProcess/do?&_program=/MyFolder/MyStoredProcess"> MyStoredProcess </a>

When user clicks that link, it would open the result in the same browser tab.

If you change the link to:

<a href="https://myserver/SASStoredProcess/do?&_program=/MyFolder/MyStoredProcess" target="_blank"> MyStoredProcess </a>

The stored process results would open in a new browser tab.

target= is an attribute of the link, not part of the URL. See e.g.: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp.

-Q.

Re: Newwindow action in Stored Process Web Application

Marlis — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:27:14 GMT

Many thanks to you, Quentin 🙂

Now I have understood the logic.

Best, Marlis