A custom modal popup form closes periodically - how can this be overcome with other DayPilot controls?

Dave, when does the modal get hidden:

1. Is it immediately after display?
2. Automatically, after some time?
3. After a specific user action?

By default it gets hidden if you call modal.close() or if you click the background div that covers the whole screen (beneath the modal).

After a small period of time, the daypilot.modal dialog box displays, with the intended content;
then on an automatic refresh, it gets hidden.

How do you invoke the refresh - do you use the AutoRefresh feature of the Scheduler? Or do you reload the whole page?

It would be the autorefresh feature of the scheduler that is being used..

The AutoRefresh shouldn't affect the modal dialog.

I've tried to reproduce the issue using the following demo:
http://www.daypilot.org/demo/Scheduler/AutoRefresh.aspx

It refreshes the events every 10 seconds. Clicking an event opens the modal dialog. In my tests it stays open even if after the refresh.

Just a few things to explore:

1. Does the page fully reloads? You'd see a full page GET request in the Network tab of developer tools in this case. That would redraw the whole page and the modal dialog would get hidden in that case.

2. Do you use AfterRenderJavaScript? Maybe there is something in that event handler that either refreshes the page or closes the dialog.

3. Anything suspicious in the browser console (JavaScript error, etc.)?

Dan,

1) As far as I can see, yes the page fully reloads
2) Yes the "AfterRenderJavaScript" property of the daypilotscheduler is in use.
3) No, I cannot see anything suspicious

Dave

Is the page reloaded using a POST or GET request?

DayPilot normally doesn't refresh the page - the only exception is a PostBack but that always requires a user action.
The AutoRefresh only uses a CallBack.

Dan,

Its not a full postback page..
Neither am I using UpdatePanels to do a partial postback..

Presumably then it is a callback call which is hiding the daypilot.modal form.

All I have done is:

1) add a new linkbutton control to the page
2) configured the onclientclick event of the linkbutton to call some javascript
3) the javascript then makes use of the daypilot.modal control to view the target page..

Is this the correct approach I should be using or is there another way?

Please advise.

Thanks

Dave

Dave,

It looks like the LinkButton might reload the page. Adding the OnClientClick event handler doesn't prevent the default action (PostBack). Can you try adding "return false;" to the event handler, like this?

.... OnClientClick="openModal(); return false;" ...

Dan,

Looks like that has fixed the problem..

Thank you.

mrplatypus ;) (aka Dave)

Great, thanks for the update!