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Open URL in new window using JavaScript

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Hi Guys,



Hopefully someone can help me with this.

By clicking a button I would like IE or whatever the default browser is to be launched with a specific URL.



I have tried using: xfa.host.gotoURL("http://www.google.com");

but obviously this opens within the window I'm working in. Close but not close enough.



Thanks in advance!



James
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I believe you can add another boolean parameter that tells whether to start a new browser or not......or you can use this command:



app.launchURL("address", true);

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Paul,



That worked like a dream, thanks.



James

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Paul,



When I do a Preview PDF when designing the form and click the button then a new window with my URL opens but when I preview the Form Guide and press the button it does nothing. I've double checked that the language I'm using in Javascript.



Any help is much appreciated



James

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That command will not work form a guide. It is not supported....only in a PDF.

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Ok thanks Paul.



Do you know of any way to launch a new window from the Form Guide??



Thanks,

James

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Not without modifying the guide style ...certainly Flex can do it but that fuctionality has not been exposed in our guide styles.