Programatic Refresh of Manager Page

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smg6511v2 Reply #1, 10 years, 3 months ago

I've created a plugin that sets a value on a particular TV when a related TV has content in it (during OnDocFormSave). A problematic fine point is that when a user has "continue editing" set for the save behavior, updates made via the plugin are not visible (until one manually reloads the page they are editing). Is it possible to initiate the reloading of the active form via my plugin?

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BobRay Reply #2, 10 years, 3 months ago

You could try adding something like this to the end of your plugin:

$url = 'http://yoursite.com/manager/?a=30&id=' . $docId;
$modx->sendRedirect($url);

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smg6511v2 Reply #3, 10 years, 1 month ago

Thanks, Bob, for the idea. However, this causes the manager page to hang with the never-ending saving dialog. I'm guessing this is because of the sequence of execution (e.g., the actual saving is done after this plugin is fired, right?). Is there a different event in my plugin I should try this redirect within?

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BobRay Reply #4, 10 years, 1 month ago

No, OnDocFormSave fires after the record is saved (as opposed to OnBeforeDocFormSave), but the JS code that works the save progress bar may be confused by what you're doing. Maybe the $_POST values are still set and it's trying to save the resource again.

I'm not sure what the solution would be. You could try adding this line before the redirect, but I'm not sure it will help:

$_POST = array();

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Garry Nutting Reply #5, 10 years, 1 month ago

Not a complete solution but it may help ... this OnDocFormRender plugin modifies the success method of the resource panel to reload the page after save regardless if 'Continue' is selected, maybe you could build some logic around it for your use case:

<?php
$modx->regClientStartupHTMLBlock('
    <script type="text/javascript">
            Ext.override(MODx.panel.Resource, {
                originalSuccess: MODx.panel.Resource.prototype.success
                ,success: function(o) {
                    this.originalSuccess(o);
                    var tv = Ext.get("tv1").dom.value;
                    if (tv && tv == "1") {
                        MODx.loadPage(location.href);
                    }
                }
            });
    </script>    
');

EDIT: Modified original code to show how you can access a TV value and only reload the page if a certain TV value is present. [ed. note: garryn last edited this post 10 years, 1 month ago.]

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smg6511v2 Reply #6, 7 years, 4 months ago

OK, looping back around to this subject long after the original query ...

Garry's suggestion above worked with a tweak or two. I had to adjust the value sent to the MODx.loadPage method, as it seems to require the action and resource id taken from the query string (in this case "resource/update&id=[nnn]"):

var url = location.href, i = url.indexOf("?") + 3;
MODx.loadPage(url.substr(i));

On a new project utilizing a variation of the original plugin, the value of pagetitle is set based on the values of 3 tvs. Is it possible to reload the page only if there has been a change in these tvs (as opposed to a specific value)?

Note: I'm using this plugin for modx 2.5.2.

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jonleverrier Reply #7, 6 years, 3 months ago

And just for reference, just putting this here:
https://forums.modx.com/thread/84742/refresh-a-resource-when-save?page=2#dis-post-556179