During onLoad event, how do i get a value from the form as it opens?

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Hi All

I’m doing a web site application where content is managed by the users.

I have a Frameset with 2 frames. LeftNav & Notesview. LeftNav will hold a Form with embedded view. When i populate the leftNav frame with the Form, i want the 2nd Frame to display a ‘splash’ page. This ‘content’ will be ‘replaced’ once the user starts opening documents from the embedded view.

This frameset is called from a Homepage and i want to reuse the same frameset for various pages, rather than creating a seperate frameset for every area of the website.

I can get the onLoad event for the form in the LeftNav frame to launch the required page in the Notesview when i ‘hard code’ the URL

e.g.

parent.NotesView.location.href = “http://mySite/database.nsf/view/docid?openform”

However, when i set the value of the URL in the document and try to call it in the onLoad event, nothing happens.

code example is

parent.NotesView.location.href = document.form[0].splashPageURL.value

splashPageURL exists as a field on the form with the embedded view. I’ve tried the field as editable, computed and computed for display, but to no avail. The field is populated by an @dblookup and i can see the value when in the web browser.

I suspect the problem is that i’m not getting hold of the value from the form, but am not sure what i’m not doing right. I have checked Notes Net and Notes Help, and tried a few different things, but i seem to be getting no where fast.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Andy G

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Subject: Found my own solution.

Stumbled on a post in Notes Net, and tried the following code:

parent.NotesView.location.assign(document.forms[0].splashPageURL.value)

It works a treat.

Thanks all, and hope this helps someone else.

cheers

AndyG