Hey Guys,
I have a ASP report that Generates in an Excel Spreadsheet. This spreadsheet has a column of links, I can use these links and it takes me to the page, however, when I press the browser back button from that page, I loose the data on the spreadsheet. I would like to stop the browser back button from letting it return to the spreadsheet.
Ive been using the javascript to stop the Back button on other pages, but when it opens the page through the excel spreadsheet it stops working. The excel spreadsheet opens inside the browser, by the way.
This is the javascript I use to stop the back button.
javascript:window.history.
Any Ideas?
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Well the excel sheet already is in a new window, I am more concerned about the links embedded into the excel spreadsheet not being able to go back to the spreadsheet. I have no idea why the javascript is not working after coming out of the excel file. The Files it links to are normal ASP files. Why would that script not be working on these pages, thats what is stumping me.
I just figured out why its not working. The javascript only makes the illusion by forcing the last page to push back to the next site in the forward, but for my problem, the javascript is not getting read at all, so it can't stop going back to the Excel Sheet. My next Idea was to make these links open to a new window from the spreadsheet, is that even possible?
I think the best option is to download the Excel report rather than having it open as an Excel-as-a-plugin-on-a-web
The Content-Disposition attachment will open an Open/Save As dialog rather than using the Excel plugin.
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by: cwolvesPosted on 2008-05-04 at 22:24:55ID: 21498253
Okay, first off that's one of the most annoying things you can possibly do and you should be shot. :-) Okay, not really but I think you probably know what I'm talking about...it drives me crazy when people try to disable my back button.
As for disabling it, if you're setting the content type to application/excel or whatever the exact excel content type is, it's going to be handled by MS Word, NOT by the browser. Yes, it may be embedded in the browser, but it's still word (or openoffice or whatever else) handling the content.
In otherwords you can't use javascript as it's not an HTML page.
The best you could do would be to open the excel sheet in a new window. Since it's in a new window it won't have a history and thus no back button.
Oh, you can also ...no, I won't tell you that because it's just evil.