I want to first set the value of an item and then re-direct to a page. This must be done in javascript (for various reasons). I am OK with the redirect (just calling the APEX redirect() function) however I would like to be able to update an item value first. I assume this is job for AJAX? I am not able to submit the page before re-direction.

Thank-you

Hi,

It does depend on what you mean by "update an item value first".

If you just mean that you want to go from page 1 to page 2 and, during the redirect, you want to set an item on page 2, then this can be done in the URL (you can set any page item value in the URL, it doesn't just have to be on the page that you are transferring to).

If you mean that you have to update a value on a table, then you can either use Ajax OR you can pass a value to page 2 and have a process run on page 2 that does the update for you (perhaps passing a request name in the URL and setting the process to be conditional on this value).

Andy

^ Thanks - I will give that a try and let you know later.

I can't set it in the URL unfortunately. Very basically I am using an iFrame on a page which I have a button on the parent frame to break out of the frame and display the URL inside the iFrame - something along these lines:

<script>
function redir() {
  var url=window.frames['iframe_window'].location.href;
  redirect(url); 
}
</script>

Yes, there are various reasons why!

Yes, they're being used to create a (primitive) touch-screen mode for an application whereby the content is in an iframe with large buttons to scroll etc. The screen needs to be able to toggle between both touchscreen and normal mode though. Sounds like a strange thing to do but without going into too much detail, it's difficult to explain everything!!

lol - apart from the issue above, it actually works quite well!
Bit of CSS required here and there to make things bigger, more easily accessible etc but not a great deal.

Got the AJAX method working fine - thank-you very much!