I am creating a web application.
I have a landing page which the user sees after logging in.
From the landing page they can click a link to go to detail page.
The detail page loads data for the default id to start with. It also contains a drop down for user to pick a different id. When user presses submit button it makes a get request to the same page, but uses the optional argument id=someID this reloads the page and shows the data for the newly selected id. All of this is working correctly.
My question is, if user chooses a few different ids from the drop down and clicks submit to view their data, now if he wants to get back to landing he has to go back through each id that he viewed. I would like to know if it is possible to set it up so that when they press back button they will go directly to landing page no matter how many times they've chosen new id's to view data for.
Here is the flow I'd like to achieve:
/landing -> /detail -> /detail?id=1 -> /detail?id=2 -> [press back button] -> /landing
Have the requests on the details page pulled in via ajax. You have to do some refactoring so that on a successful request, the information it receives will repopulate like a content block, but this will allow the information on the details page to update without you actually navigating to a new page. Then it'll leave you the ability to press the back button to go back to the landing page.
If you're already using a way to catch the amount of id's requested:
<INPUT Type="button" id="back" VALUE="Back" onClick="history.go(-"number of id requests");return true;">
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I have just started working with Oracle APEX and would like users to be able to download reports from my application.The problem is I have a number of reports which have a large number of rows. Each time a user clicks on a page tab, the page is resubmitted and the query for the reports are executed again. This results in a lot of delay and is becoming frustrating for the users!
Is it possible to stop APEX from resubmitting the page until the user clicks a refresh button or is it possible to stop the query for reports from executing everytime the user clicks on a page tab?
To prevent submitting you can change the page template. Open page properties, in the section Shared Components find Templates. Near the word Page you will see a link to its template. Follow this link, then find a section Standard Tab Attributes. In the field Current Tab you will see something like this:
<li>#TAB_LABEL##TAB_INLINE_EDIT#</li>
Change this value to:
<li><a class="active">#TAB_LABEL#</a>#TAB_INLINE_EDIT#</li>
After that an active item in a menu will be displayed as a static text, not as a link.
All pages with this page template will have this behavior. If you don't need to change behavior of all pages: before changing template make copy of it, change the copy and choose the new template in a page properties.
Have you tried with the conditions?? I pretty new with Apex too, I had a similar problem, what I did was put conditions to the buttoms and regions.
After that I good a nice result. Hope it helps you.
Good luck
I'm using jQuery Mobile (no php or xml or anything else) for a web application running on cherrypy and i would like to find out how can i keep the page as it has been set by user even after refreshing.
As an example of the page, see this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/xaKXM/5/
in this example, user may input certain text in Response number and description. When the user click submit,user will see #configtable div. if the page is refreshed, user will not go back to the initial page (#labels div' )but to remain in the#configtable` (the one that user can't input anything but can only click activate button")
May be there is a button that would clear all those states and the page will go back to default when refresh?
Is this possible to be done?
if you refresh the DOM using window.open('index.html'); this should clear everything in the page
i am creating a page with back button in corner. if the page launched for first back button should hide. if user navigates through page back button should show.
i used the code
(window.history.length > 1)?$("#back").show():$("#back").hide();
but my problem is,
window.history.length is keeps increasing.
But my requirement is when there is no page to go back then back button should hide again. how to achieve that?
you have more problems. what if the user came from google? there would be window history already. What if a user went to your site, then went to google, then came back?
If it's just a nav system as described by #Marc B, it's easy, you know where the user came from and how to get back (don't use the history directly). But if it is a back button no matter what link the user clicks into your site... it gets more complicated. Due to privacy restrictions, you can't access the user's actual URL history (just the length) and you can't access whatever url they are navigating to if you use capture the window.unload event. So you're left with limited options.
One option would be to record the window location on every page load to an array that you keep in either local storage, or a cookie. Then you should use this array to manage your history state rather than relying on window.history. When the user clicks your back button, you just pop off the last url on your site they visited and navigate them there. Keep in mind the first page load will put an item into your history array, so depending on where you check to see if you should show or hide your history button, you'll compare the length of your history array to either 0 or 1.
This is how my flow works. User clicks on a link - "find", and is shown a page using ajax. I add to history using pushState. Then, the user clicks next to see results of page 2(using ajax), and I add again to push state. So, this works fine, when the user goes back. But, my issue is that say user is on page 2 of results, and clicks a regular link(i e no ajax call). He is taken to a new page, but when he clicks back, he is not taken to results page 2 but to the initial search page.
Is this normal behavior? Or can something be done?
Sounds like your search/result page is not properly updating its state when loaded. When you go back from "regular page", the "ajax page" is reloaded and thus loses its state. You must manually restore the state (e.g. read the url and doing the corresponding ajax).
How do I insert an entry into browsing history so back button goes to different page 1st click then original page on 2nd click?
So if you need a good explanation of what I want done, go to:
https://secure.exitjunction.com/howitworks.jsp
I just need a script that will allow me to insert an entry in the browsing history so when back button is hit, the user will be taken to my special page.
Here is a link to a jQuery Plugin:
jQuery Plugin
You can't directly manipulate the browsing history.
Such a feature would be seen as a security hole (and it would be), so I doubt that any browsers would ever implement it.
You might be able to hack around it however by doing something like this:
NOTE: This entirely hinges around the assumption that the referrer will get changed by the back button. I don't think this actually happens, so it more than likely won't work, but hey.
You have two pages, PageA and PageB.
The user hits PageA
The page (on the client, using javascript) checks the HTTP referrer, and if it is not PageB, then it immediately redirects the user to PageB.
Now that you're on PageB, if the user clicks the back button, it will go back to PageA.
PageA will check the referrer, it willmay be PageB, so there is no redirect.