Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / General CF Topics / August 2008

With a basic window, that is a javascript task. Add some javascript to your
submission page and call it on page load.  I do not remember the correct syntax
offhand, but something like:

// refresh parent window
window.opener.location.refresh();
self.close();

*AND*

I just wanted to bring up the concept here the indicates a fundamental
and very common beginning misconception.

The distinction between ColdFusion and JavaScript and how they *do* and
*do not* relate to each other.

The former only runs on a server and will never run at the same time as
the latter which only runs on a client.  You can never have ColdFusion
code and JavaScript code 'interact' with each other in a procedural manner.

There are very powerful techniques to use ColdFusion to build dynamic
JavaScript to be sent to and run on the client.  There are DHTML|AJAX
methods to have JavaScript make new requests to a server and have
ColdFusion generate and then send new content to the client behind the
scenes.  But they do not work 'together', i.e. each one has no clue what
the other knows or is doing.

I have repeatedly witnessed the frustration and difficult new web
programmers have until they grok the deferences between the server code
and the client code and how the twain will never meet.