FileDownload Link : popup window is not closing

[Former Member]

Hello all,

We have a View with a FileDownload link in it (allowSave behaviour).

When we click on this link : an IE window appears and then we have a standard IE Popup in it asking us if we want to save or directly open our document.

If we choose "Open" or " Download", the document opens as wanted, but the IE window with url :

http://<server>:<port>/webdynpro/dispatcher/<Webdynpro_application>/~wd_key2_1242116894790/<Excel_fi...gKO8pIkJscJkCS95LiR7UA%2F<pcd_link>&sap-wd-norefresh=X&sap-ep-version=7.00.200802160835

Does not automatically closes itself.

Is there a way to force this window to close when we choose Open or Download ?

[Former Member]

Hi Romain,

As far as I see this is the functionality of the browser and your application has nothing to do with it. As per my understanding for download your are using one of the follwoing:

1 WebDynpro UI linktoURL

2 WebDynpro UI FileDownload

3 Opening an external window for download

In the first two cases you can set the Target property to _self and it should work fine. For further details kindly refer to the thread below:

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but when I tried doing it, the application's behavior was found unchanged. And on further investigating I found in SAP documentation that this property is no longer supported. For this please refer to the link below:

[http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/DE/c5/dc99f5d1b1504aa0045a7070a0f500/frameset.htm]

As per my understanding this is the browser's functionality and it works well in IE 7 and we do not have much control over it from the application.

Hope this helps you Kindly post your feedback,

Regards,

Gaurav

[Former Member]

Open an OSS message (BC-WD-CLT-HTML).

Armin