XPages: how to automatically redirect to external url after timeout

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Subject: XPages: how to automatically redirect to external url after timeout

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: Domino Designer on Eclipse (DDE)

Technical Area: Functionality

Platform: ALL

Release: 8.5

Reproducible: Not applicable

Hi,

I'm currently trying to implement something that (imho) is a standard scenario in web apps:
after a user has submitted a form they should be shown some "Thank you" message. Then, after some timeout (say: 5 seconds) they shall be redirected to some fixed url which is outside of my current context (i.e.: a company home page).

I found this thread in the discussion:
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/5f27803bba85d8e285256bf10054620d/f847e44b47d18bba8525758a007880e8?OpenDocument

Philippe Riand suggested to use

>> context.redirect();

passing the target url.
Well, for one: the documentation doesn't mention a "redirect()" method; instead, there's only

a .redirectToPage() method

which leads to what was described by Barry McGovern in the thread's final post.

Nevertheless, I played around with

>> context.redirect("newUrl")

in various combinations (and from various events), but always receiving a "Command Not Handled Exception" from it.

I then tried to pass a new URL using

>> XSPUrl.setAddress(myUrl)

which in fact seems to exchange the URL in memory, but with no consequences... (obviously I completely misinterpreted that method)

I'm assuming that I'm just missing a small detail, as I'm sure that something like that MUST be possible.

Any hint is more than welcome!
-Lothar

Feedback number WEBB7RAEFY created by ~Justin Zekamanlen on 04/20/2009

Status: Open
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