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sharepoint provides a method called "commonShowModalDialog" which is used to show a popup window. i am on the popup window now, i need to redirect to another page within the popup window. is there any way to do that.

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I think you need to use Javascript to close the current dialog and open a new dialog with the new URL - maybe using "window.parent"

Or maybe SPUtility.Redirect() can help?

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You could simply use the javascript

window.location.href = "URL"

inside the modal dialog; this will use the context of the open modal dialog to navigate to the new page.

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then it is opening in new window. i need to redirect in the same window – michael Apr 20 '11 at 11:10
Right, that's because it's using a get request. Please see shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/… – Tim Ebenezer Apr 20 '11 at 11:16
window.location.href would use the existing browser window, not a new one. Is that not what you want? When you say same window, so you mean same browser window or same dialog "window"? – Jaap Vossers Apr 20 '11 at 12:50
Jaap (hi mate!) - it's a function of the dodgy modal window model that IE6 :( uses. See the above article. Window.location.href would normally work but not in this instance. – Tim Ebenezer Apr 20 '11 at 14:38
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Likely you want to steer away from this legacy approach to showing dialogs. If you are on SharePoint 2010 a better choice is to use the dialog API.

A good walkthrough can be found on MSDN Blogs at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jfrost/archive/2009/11/08/how-to-display-a-sharepoint-dialog-from-ribbon-button-and-get-selected-item-context.aspx

Wouter

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Darn it, I now see the tag 'SharePoint 2007'. Sigh! – Wouter - SharePoint MVP Apr 20 '11 at 12:20

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