Question

I have got this project that uses excel for some calculation.

This excel is converted to HTML using 3rd party tool. and the uploaded to server.
when a person views this HTML (i.e. in IFrame), the user can enter some data modify some data and then can save it in database or XML.

after words when later the same user wants to come and review his changes, the data must be taken from database and then must be able to view that data in HTML page which is in iframe.

But the problem here is that the user will not be able to write the code for data retrieval when retrieving data from database.

Is there any solution for that in any language or any other way of doing the same functionality??

EDIT : Explanation

Let me write this in steps:

1.admin uploads HTML file to web app, converted from excel using Spreadsheet converter (Third party tool).

2.user views the file, but HTML file is displayed inside iframe so not much interaction possible between parent and iframe window.

3.the HTML Page has submit button, which when clicked submits to submit.aspx and saves data to XML file for that user’s id (with some editted values.).

4.later when same user tries to access that file,obviously it will show the file from the mentioned src so user stored value will not be displayed.

5.So now what i need is when user accesses the same file again the file should display the data with the values stored for that user that too without requiring any coding on that HTML page which will be viewed on that Iframe.

I want to get the interaction between top window and iframe window .i tried to achieve this using jquery but it is not working. Here is the code that i have tried.

<script type='text/javascript'>
var $currIFrame = $('#htmlPageFrame');
$('#htmlPageFrame').load(function() {
$currIFrame.contents().find('#userID').val('1');
$currIFrame.contents().find('#DataMode').val('save');
});
</script>

where userID and DataMode are to hidden fields in the HTML pge which load in iframe. Hope this makes things preety clear.

Answer 1

Found the reason for problem.
As i was using master page and was making iframe runat=server, page was looking for htmlPageFrame while what i should have provided was htmlPageFrame.ClientID.

Silly mistake…

And Thanks @Aristos Even your solution was helpful to me.

Now code goes like this:

<script type='text/javascript'>
var $currIFrame = $('#<%= htmlPageFrame.ClientID %>');
$('#<%= htmlPageFrame.ClientID %>').load(function() {
$currIFrame.contents().find('#userID').val('1');
$currIFrame.contents().find('#DataMode').val('save');
});
</script>