Passing data from Child to parent

**texas1992** · 08-29-2012 12:07 PM

This seems to be a common problem. I have posted before but didn't get a resolution so I am going to post again but a little differently.

What I need to do is pass a value from a child popup window to the parent window. When I get the value back on the parent window I can hide or expose a button based on the value passed back.

Parent Code:

Code:

<body style="background-image: none; background-color: White" class="floormgr" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<input type="hidden" name="publish" value="" />

Child Code:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
function onOK()
{
	if(formOpenLayout.layoutname.value == '' && formOpenLayout.layoutname.value != null)
	{
		alert('You must select a layout.');
		formOpenLayout.layoutname.focus();
		return;
	}
	else {
	    var sLayout = formOpenLayout.layoutname.options[formOpenLayout.layoutname.selectedIndex].text;
	    //alert("Name: " + sLayout + ", Status: " + sLayout.indexOf('UNPUB'));
	    if (sLayout.indexOf('UNPUB') > 0) {
	        self.opener.document.getElementsByName('publish').item = "unpublished";
	    }
	    
		window.returnValue = formOpenLayout.layoutname.value;
		window.close();
	}
}

I get an error that "self.opener.document is not an object".

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

**LukieB** · 08-30-2012 02:15 AM

Did you try without the self. in front of it?

opener.document.getElementsByName('publish').item = "unpublished";

**texas1992** · 08-30-2012 10:01 AM

I did try without the self. in frontof the code and I still get the error message "opener.document is null or not an object".

Thanks.

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