Question

I have the following code which is working fine on the development machine. But, when I deploy it to IIS, the .click() does not fire.

1. I have drop down box, when a status is selected, I add the following code to open up a RadWindow

   if (ddlStatusID.SelectedValue.ToString() == "2")
        btnUpdateStatus.Attributes.Add("onclick", "return OpenWindow2('" + 
        ResolveUrl("~/Request/AddBillableTime.aspx?  RequestId=" + RequestId.ToString()) +  
   "','650','320');");
   else
      btnUpdateStatus.Attributes.Add("onclick", "");
   

2. In the popup page, when the user clicks on a button I add do the following

   ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "CloseWindow", 
    "ClosePopup();", true);
   

This is the ClosePopup javascript.

function ClosePopup() {
    //debugger;
    alert('This is before closing the window');
    var oWindow = GetRadWindow();
    oWindow.argument = null;
    oWindow.close();
    alert('This is after closing the window');
    oWindow.BrowserWindow.ButtonClick();
    }

1. In the main window, I have following javascript, which is invoked in the last line of the above javascript.

   function ButtonClick() {
   //debugger;
   alert('This is before button click!');
   var btnUpdateStatus =   
   document.getElementById('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_btnUpdateStatus');
   alert('This is getting the button!');
   btnUpdateStatus.setAttribute("onclick", "");
   alert('This is setting the button!');
   btnUpdateStatus.click();
   alert('This is after clicking the button!');
   

   }

I have used the alerts to check how far the javascript function is executed.

The entire functionality is working fine when I run it using Visual Studio and also when I host it in my local IIS server. But, when I deploy it to the server, the click() event stops firing.

Please let me know if there is anything wrong in the code.

Answer 1

I didn’t had time to look into this issue for some as I was assigned to a new task. But had to fix it once I was back in the same task. I got some help from a friend of mine to fix the issue. I had to change the current logic a bit and have explained the solution below.

I changed the ButtonClick function as below to create a manual post back to the page using the __doPostBack function.

function ButtonClick() {
__doPostBack('btnUpdatePage', '');
return;
}

I handled the post back from the Page_Load method of the page.

if (Request["__EVENTTARGET"] == "btnUpdatePage")
{
     UpdateStatus();
}

If the post back event target matches the assigned event target from the __doPostBack method, then I called a method to update the status.

This way I could avoid the issue. But I do not know why the event was not fired using the old ButtonClick function.