Step 2: Specify the Redirect URL

The Redirect URL step specifies which application page should be displayed after the button is clicked and the action performed.

Options

Description

URL

The URL of the page to be displayed when the button is clicked.

The URL field has this format:

http://<Page URL>?<Parm1>=<Value1>&<Parm2>=<Value2>

Here’s an example:

http://AcmeOMS/View-Orders.aspx?OrderID={PK}&Name={FK}

The format of the URL parameters (such as PK in the example above) is:

[ControlName:][NoUrlEncode:]Type[:Value]

When the URL is consumed by a Record control, the associated record is used at run-time to construct the actual URL containing the specified URL Parameters. When consumed by a Table control, the Table control’s selected record is used.

The URL may include hard-coded arguments as well as parameterized arguments.

There are a variety of substitution variables described in Button Actions - Substitution Variables.

The special arguments that may be entered into this field are:

{0}
{1}
etc.

Any number of positional arguments can be included in the URL. Numbers enclosed in curly braces indicates that the value should be calculated from the URL Parameters (see below).

Back

This argument can be used with the special "updatedata" URL Parameter, which is related to page history (Back key) handling.

You can modify a page’s OK or Cancel button to return "Back" to a previous page with fresh data by adding an "updatedata" URL Parameter. This causes the previous page to load with fresh data, while maintaining settings (such as page size displayed, sorting, etc).

Clicking the button will cause it to emit client script during the post back that will close the browser window when the post back's Http Response is sent back to the browser.

Since Iron Speed Designer does not (currently) easily support applications that use multiple browsers in the same session, this feature is currently most useful in conjunction with customization. However, there may be rare situations where a developer might want to use it without customization, such as an application’s sign out button to use the Close URL instead of redirecting to a sign out confirmation page.

URL Parameters

The URL parameters, if any, to pass to the page being displayed via the URL. There is a variety of substitution variables described in Button Actions - Substitution Variables. In order to make pages more user-friendly, Iron Speed Designer includes new URL parameter “TabVisible=False” when you select “Navigate a specific URL within a modal pop-up” to hide tabs when page is opened in a modal pop-up. Also if you specify a control to update on the Action step, “SaveAndNewVisible=False” will be included and the Save and New button will not show up on the page opened in modal pop up. If you think the tabs or Save and New button are helpful, you are welcome to remove these URL parameters but note that there are some major limitations:

if you close the window or cancel from it after one or more clicks to Save and New without ever clicking Save, underlying control will not be updated, new records will not be reflected. User will need to manually (F5) refresh a page to see new records Control is updated only when Save button is clicked.

Another important limitation is that only last added record will be added to the dropdown list if it was selected to be updated so if several were added via Save and New button only last will show up in the list after Save was clicked.

Tabs might not fit pop-up window and could require vertical and horizontal scroll.

Step 2: Specify the Redirect URL

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