commandbutton action

Question

I have a commandbutton, When click I want it to save a phonecall record and redirect to the record page, after that open a new page in a new window which shows the editing page of a new case related to the call.

I am doing it like this:

//Pseudocode
public PageReference saverecord(){
   create a new phone call record;
   insert record;
   if(createnewcase)
      create case;
      insert case;
      create editcaseURL;
   return phonerecord page;
}

on the client side, In the commandbutton, I use <apex:param name="newcase" value="true" assignTo="{!createNewCase}"/> to set the createnewcase to true. and oncomplete javascript to open the popup window. I have test the phonerecord and caserecord seperately and succeeded. but when I put them in one class, the case was never created. and in the visualforce view state window. I can't even find the boolean createnewcase.

please help.

Thanks

Answer 1

It is easy to implement with Apex / JavaScript:

The apex code:

// Defining two variables for the both records (case and phone)
public String caseId { get; set; }
public String phoneId { get; set; }

// Defining a boolean to render the JavaScript panel after saving
punlic Boolean redirectNow { get; set; }

public PageReference saverecord(){
    // Create a new phone call record;
    insert record;

    // Now reading a phone record id
    phoneId = record.id;

    if(createnewcase){
        create case;
        insert case;

        // Now reading a case id
        caseId = case.id;
    }

    // If case and phone are OK -> set this flag to true
    redirectNow = true;

    // We do not need to return a real page reference 
    // because we will redirecting with javascript
    return null;
}

And the Visualforce page with JavaScript:

<!-- A command button, that rerenders a panel with JavaScript -->
<apex:commandButton value="Save" action="{!saverecord}" reRender="doAfterSave"/>

<!-- This panel renders only after you will save the new records -->
<apex:outputPanel id="doAfterSave">
    <apex:outputPanel rendered="{!redirectNow}">
        <script>
            // First reading the id's
            var newCaseId = '{!caseId}';
            var newPhoneId = '{!phoneId}';

            if(newCaseId != '' && newPhoneId != '')
            {
                // Now opening a new window with case in edit mode
                window.open('/' + newCaseId + '/e');

                // And then redirecting the main page to the new phone record
                window.location = '/' + phoneId;
            }
        </script>
    </apex:outputPanel>
</apex:outputPanel>