Modal Dialogs and Minimal Download Strategy

Question

I am having the following issue in SharePoint 2013 Online (Office 365 Preview): when I try to display in a modal dialog a page that relies on MDS (Minimal Download Strategy), the dialog opens but then closes immediately.

Is this a known issue, and how can I fix this?

To be more specific:

• I am using SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog to open the dialog
• MDS pages are pages whose url contains /_layouts/15/start.aspx#

When I remove the MDS part from the url the dialog works fine.

[Edit] To clarify, I am talking about having the mds page inside the dialog, not calling the dialog from a mds page. Something like this:

SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog({url:'/someSite/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/SitePages/Home.aspx'})

Answer 1

//Using a generic object.
var options = {
    title: "This is the Home title",
    width: 400,
    height: 600,
    url: "/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/SitePages/Home.aspx" };

SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options);

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff410058(v=office.14).aspx

make sure /_layouts/15/start.aspx#/SitePages/Home.aspx is correct, copy past into webbrowser to see the page ;) if it is that your all good togo!

how are you calling the function above?

onclick="javascript:openDialog(); return false;"

the return false says not to send a postback, that could be the issue with the dialog closing!

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if that doesnt solve your problem than also try this together:

//Using a generic object.
var options = {
    title: "This is the Home title",
    width: 400,
    height: 600,
    url: "/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/SitePages/Home.aspx" 
    dialogReturnValueCallback: CloseCallback};

options.dialogReturnValueCallback = Function.createDelegate(
     null, CloseCallback);

SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options);

//call this when you run the dialog:

function startTimer()
 {
       var timer = $find("<%=ajaxTimer.ClientID%>")
      timer._startTimer();
 }

//call this when you CloseCallback function

 function stopTimer()
 {
       var timer = $find("<%=ajaxTimer.ClientID%>")
      timer._stopTimer();
 } 

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