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Open document opens new Window in IE which is in front, then back, front

Former Member
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Hello we have here the following Situation.

We have a big XI 3.1 Business Objects Platform running.

Also we have in our company net a portal in which the users can open reports from our BO platform.

This is done by usercustomized open document urls.

That al works fine.

Thing is, when a user requests the report, the Internet Explorer opens a new window which is blank. The Window can be seen for a second. Then the new window goes to the background behind the current window. After several seconds when in the new window the report starts to regenerate itself the window goes back to the front and the report is displayed.

And that behaviour confuses our user quite a lot.

The behaviour can be seen in IE 6 and 8. Firefox does not show this behavior.

IE9 wasn't tested.

So, does anyone know if there is an IE setting, or part of the Open document url which can change the behavior so that the new indow just apears and then stay apeared?

Changing the browser to firefox or IE9 is not an option because we are talking about 30k pc-clients.

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denis_konovalov
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This behaviour should be fixed in Sp3 and later patches.

p.s.

IE9 is not yet supported

Former Member
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Well, actually we are on SP3.

Is there any additional information regarding that problem, or some kind of workaround?

denis_konovalov
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that's strange, are you sure the opendoc war files was updated and re-deployed ?

what's the opendoc syntax you're using ?

Former Member
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Here is an example URL. I have made the servername and parameters in italics.

Im not responsible for the deployment of the war files. But it was seen that after the update of the SP3 old opendoc syntax caused problems in other opendoc calls and was changed. So I assume that the war was deployed.

https://*serverurl*/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?token=*servername:port*@*something-something*&sWindow=New&reportType=FullClient&ls*Parameter1*=*parameterstring*;&iDocID=*IdocID of the Report*&sWindow=Same

Actually after seeing the opendoc-string im surprised of the double use of the &sWindow parameter.

Edited by: Florian Schulz on Mar 31, 2011 4:10 PM

Edited by: Florian Schulz on Mar 31, 2011 4:11 PM

denis_konovalov
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yes, me too

Actualy, the product direction is to remove sWindow parameter from OpenDoc syntax completely. for some reason I was under impression it was done in Sp3....

The Window in which opendoc opens the report should be controled outside of the opendoc call. using either script or HTTP syntax...

Former Member
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-Well the actual links we had in use were pre SP3 but some worked on when we got to SP3. Also this url actually has only the slight strange window popping. All in all it works.

-With HTML controlled new window, you are reffering to sometihing like:

target="_blank"

yes?

denis_konovalov
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Yes, exactly.

Former Member
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Thanks a lot. I will test it soon.

cheers

Florian Schulz

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