Commit modal dialog and then display notification

Question

I have a modal dialog that I commit by calling window.frameElement.commitPopup(), and this is great because it refreshes the parent window.

However I would also like to display a notification on the parent window afterwards using SP.UI.Notify.addNotification() (to show a success message), but because the parent window refreshes, there is no time to show the notification.

I can think of some ways using cookies or client storage, but I wondered if there was a different native SharePoint way to go about this?

-Adam

Answer 1

Try this code:

function showDialog(){
 SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog({
    url: urlToOpen,
    title: "title",
    allowMaximize: true,
    showClose: true,
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    dialogReturnValueCallback: silentCallback
    });
}
function silentCallback(dialogResult, returnValue) {
    switch (dialogResult) {
        case SP.UI.DialogResult.cancel:
            break;
        default:
            SP.UI.ModalDialog.RefreshPage(SP.UI.DialogResult.OK);
            break;
    }
}

Answer 2

you can use SP.UI.ModalDialog and create a custom function when dialog is closed as it is shown here: Using SP.UI.ModalDialog in SharePoint 2010 | Jon Dack http://www.jondack.com/index.php/2011/01/24/using-sp-ui-modaldialog-in-sharepoint-2010/

hope it helps

Answer 3

If you absolutely want to refresh the page and notify the user, you could store the notification as a cookie or in the localStorage and then, when the page is refreshed, get this notification text and show it to your user. I would do it so.