Refresh a display object

[nathan]

Hello it's me again with another silly question

On Form 1 I have a display object "mb_status" which displays the current status of a member. I also have a run button that opens form 2 in a popup browse mode containing the history of status changes. I use the add button to add a new status change. After save I update the database with the new status and closed form 2 and returned to form 1 in edit mode.
I would like to update the information in the display object "mb_status" without having to manually refresh the page.

[kev1n]

Hi,

In the popup form, add an nuAfterSave() function that is triggered when the form is saved.
nuIsIframe() checks if the form is opened in an iframe/popup and with parent.nuGetProperty('form_id') you check if the parent form has a certain id.
Then nuRefreshDisplayObject() is used to refresh a Display Object on the parent form with Id (e.g.) displayId

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function nuAfterSave() {

    if (nuIsIframe() && parent.nuGetProperty('form_id') == '6284eafb9392780') {  // <--- replace with your form id
        parent.nuRefreshDisplayObject('displayId'); // <-- replace with you display id
    
    }

}

BTW, the previous Github version contained a faulty nuRefreshDisplayObject() function. You might have to pull the latest https://github.com/nuBuilder/nuBuilder-4.5/blob/master/core/nuform.js with the patched version

[kev1n]

Did that help?

[nathan]

Yes thank you ...