Question

dearest experts.

You helped me with this issue on this link below previousl:

How to I redirect to another page *after* printing document?

Things seemed to be working fine until this morning we discussed that users were submitting duplicate entries.

The reason for this is that once the user clicks to Submit their request,they are presented with a button that says, “>>>Click Here To Print Form<<<<“.

Users are required to print this form but for some reason, they forget to do so.

In the event that they forget to print this form, they are taking back to the input screen with boxes still retaining the data they initially entered.

Is there a way to redirec them to results.aspx page, whether they print the form or not?

Please see current code and many thanks in advance.

<script type ="text/javascript">
    function doPrint() {
        var printContent = document.getElementById("pdmyop");
        window.print(printContent);
        document.location.href = "results.aspx";
    }
</script>

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<asp:Button ID="btnPrint" runat="server" Text=">>>Click Here To Print Form<<<<" OnClientClick="doPrint(); return false;" /> 

Answer 1

You can add this script at the end of the SubmitForm procedure:

String script = String.Format("window.print(); window.location = '{0}';", ResolveClientUrl("~/results.aspx"));
ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(insub.GetType(), "print", script, true);

I hope you can translate this code from C# to VB. If insub placed in an UpdatePanel use ScriptManager instead of the ClientScript.

Be warned, that this code doesn’t work in Chrome (as well as any code those make redirect onto different page before document printed)