I am doing an OpenDoc call from my dashboard to open a Crystal Report in Excel format. I’ve gotten all the bugs ironed out (I think).
My issue is that it opens a new tab that processes the export. But the tab is blank. It just sits there for a couple minutes until a download prompt appears.
My question is, can I open the report in a hidden tab? Something where it runs in the background but is largely invisible to the end user?
Also, is there any event that I can detect to have the dashboard notice that the export/download is done?
(Yes, I know I’m cross-posting from the Crystal group. Hopefully the moderators will forgive me, as that post hasn’t gotten a response in three days.)
Isn’t the new tab an Browser setting, so that the new tab isn’t automatically given the focus. In Internet Explorer is the ‘Always Switch to New Tabs When They Are Created’ option. Maybe worth looking at.
As for the events, and I know this is a long shot, setting up a file watcher on the folder location of the excel download which triggers a WebI report to refresh sending the dashboard a single row? Yeah, I know, I don’t fancy trying that either
Except that I have no control over the end user’s environment at all. I don’t even know what browser or OS they would be using. This is for a public-facing dashboard.
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