Hi Monks,

I have 3 different report output options in a web browser (csv download, screen display, and pdf), but after displaying the report, I'd like the server to send some javascript to the browser that calls my javascript function showWait(0); which closes my "Please wait" window. 

<script>
function getReport3(){
        showWait(1);
        if(document.getElementById('outputTypeScreen').checked){
                document.reports.setAttribute("target", 'report_window
+');
                var results=window.open('','report_window','scrollbars
+=yes,menubar=no,height=600,width=800,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,status=
+no');
        }else{document.reports.setAttribute('target','_self');}
        document.reports.submit();
}
</script>
...
<form method="post" id='reports' name='reports'>
<input type='hidden' name='rm' value='reports_getReport'>
...
<input type='radio' name='outputType' id='outputTypeDownload' value='d
+ownload'><label for='outputTypeDownload'>CSV Download</label>
<input type='radio' name='outputType' id='outputTypeScreen' value='scr
+een' ><label for='outputTypeScreen'>Screen</label>
<input type='radio' name='outputType' id='outputTypePDF' value='pdf' >
+<label for='outputTypePDF'>PDF</label>
<input type='button' value='Search' onclick='getReport3()' >
</form>

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Server code:

use CGI ':standard';
use CGI ':cgi-lib';
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Switch;
use base 'CGI::Application';
use CGI::Application::Plugin::Session;
use Template;
use Template::Stash;

use strict;
use warnings;
...
sub reports_getReport{
  my $self = shift;
  my $q = $self->query;
...
  switch($outputType){
    case 'download'{
        my $data=csvReport($report); #take the data and convert to com
+ma delimited
                $self->header_props(-type => 'application/octet-stream
+', -attachment => 'report.csv');
        $self->header_add(-script=>{-type=>'text/javascript',-code=>' 
+alert("hi there"); showWait(0); '});
                return $data;        
    }
        case 'screen'{#this works!!!
            my $html=screenReport($report);
                return $html;
        }
        case 'pdf'{
            my $data=getReport($report);#$data is a pdf stream
                $self->header_props(-type => 'application/pdf', -attac
+hment => 'report.pdf');
        $self->header_add(-script=>{-type=>'text/javascript',-code=>' 
+alert("hi there"); showWait(0); '});
                return $data;
        }
        else{}

  }
}

sub screenReport{
        my $report=shift;
    my $html='';
    $html.='        <!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/forms/layout/sorttable.js"></scri
+pt>
<script type="text/javascript">var opener=this.window.opener;opener.sh
+owWait(0);</script>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+" />
</head>
<body>';
...
    $html.='</body></html>';
    return $html;
}

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My 'screen' case works fine, but I'm not able to get my 'download' and 'pdf' cases to run any javascript. Otherwise, everything works like they're supposed to. Is this even possible?

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