Close form on Save

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Michael Barath

• July 23, 2019 15:14

By default the SAVE button does not close the form, which I often need it to do. I am using a workaround by have a custom button labeled SAVE actually SUBMIT, then using a condition to push the flow back to the user. This solution has its own challenges such as resending the Initiation email each time the user "saves," which is a nuisance. Is there a way, using JavaScript perhaps, to automatically close the form on Save?

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  Loren Bratzler

  • July 25, 2019 13:23

  Michael,

  I think you can do what you are trying to do like this:

  Create a simple JavaScript function to close the active window:

  function closeWindow()
  {
     window.close();
  }

  From what I have read and from my testing, the default behavior is that the window.close command will only close the current active tab in your browser.

  Create your Custom Button:

  

  Configure your button to do a "Save" Action:

  

   

  Then on the Advanced tab, tell it to execute the JavaScript function:

  

   

  I did a quick test of this and it seemed to work fine.  I changed some data on a textbox in the form and then when I clicked the "Save & Close" button, my changes to the textbox value were saved in the process schema and the browser tab closed.

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  Loren Bratzler

  • July 25, 2019 13:36

  One caveat:  You may need to test this in multiple browsers.  For me it worked fine in Internet Explorer and Chrome but did not work in FireFox.  In FireFox, it closed the tab but the update to the Text Box did not get saved.

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  Michael Barath

  • July 25, 2019 15:14

  Thanks Loren. Works like a charm. You're right about browsers. For a while I thought the browser wars were over but no such luck. At least we're not using Netscape Navigator. 

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  Loren Bratzler

  • July 25, 2019 18:52

  It was bugging me about why this did not work in Firefox.  It seemed like the window was closing before the Save action could occur.  So I modified the JavaScript function to add a 100 millisecond delay before it executes the close command like this:

  function closeWindow()
  {
      setTimeout(function() {
          window.close();
      }, 100);
  }

  And now it does work in Firefox!

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