How to commit form then open a modal dialog (edit form to edit form)

Question

I have an edit form that I need to have commit data and then open another edit form with the same ID in a dialog. Previously I did not have to save data so I used

    onclick="javascript: OpenPopUpPage('EditForm2URL.aspx?ID={@ID}');"

Since I now have to save and then open the dialog I'm trying to use....

    onclick="javascript: {ddwrt:GenFireServerEvent('__commit')};OpenPopUpPage('EditForm2URL.aspx?ID={@ID}');"

When I do this the page saves then opens the dialog but refreshes and kicks the user out of the dialog before they can use it. Any way around this?

Answer 1

This sounds like form chaining. There is a function for that in the SPServices libary.

$().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID

This function allows you to redirect to a another page from a new item form with the new item's ID. This allows chaining of forms from item creation onward.

This will require you to include jQuery and the SPServices library though.

Example code

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID({   
            redirectUrl: "EditForm.aspx",
            qsParamName: "OrderID"
        });
    });
</script>

Code taken from SPServices SPRedirectWithID page.