Unable to self-close external MVC app launched in modal RadWindow

[Cristian]

So, I have the following scenario: an ASPNET webpage is launching a modal popup using RadWindow and its NavigateUrl property. The NavigateUrl points to an external, independent, ASPNET MVC application (within the same domain though). All works smoothly expect for one thing: the external MVC app has its own close logic and button to trigger that. Thing is that it obviously ain't working; the modal window hangs in there.
Being an external MVC app and all that, I guess it is out of the question to get hold of a reference to the RadWindow belonging to the host application...

Is there any solution to this scenario, at all? Thanks.

[Marin Bratanov]

Hi Cristian,

If both pages are from the same domain, you should be able to access and close the RadWindow object as shown here: http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/window-client-side-basics.html#referece-from-content-page.

This requires JavaScript to be able to access on page from the other and if it does not work, you can test the access rights easily by calling a function on the main page where the RadWindow is: http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/window-programming-calling-functions.html. If this is successful, you can have that function close the RadWindow: http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/window-client-side-basics.html#referece-from-main-page.

If you cannot access the main page with JavaScript, then there is no way to close the RadWindow programmatically. You can try adding a window.domain="the.broadest.domain.possible" to both pages in an attempt to allow access to them, but I cannot guarantee this is possible, it depends on the setup you have.


Regards,

Marin Bratanov
Telerik

 

 

[Cristian]

Thanks Marin for the whole bunch of useful info you provided. In my case, forcing the domain via window.domain=... did the "trick".