setting opener property on iframe

Question

Hey all,

The framework i'm using (django admin) pops up a new window when adding new items to the database. I would like to use a light box instead of popping up a new window (fancybox for now), and i'm using the iframe option. However, when i click save in the iframe, a request gets sent to the server, and the server responds with a page contains only the javascript code: opener.dismissAddAnotherPopup(...). This function basically closes the window and refresh the fields in the parent (opener) window. Since i don't have opener set, it returns an error and never closes the iframe. Is there anyway of setting opener on the iframe so that it won't be null?

Thanks a lot!

Jason

Answer 1

The way to do this is to override the admin view that sends the javascript. These are contained in django.contrib.admin.options: the ModelAdmin.response_add and ModelAdmin.response_change methods. You can simply override these in your model's admin class so that they return the correct fancybox closing code.