RJS and Greybox : executing the js in the parent window?

Rails
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Hi all,

Question:
Can a child window manipulate its parent window with RJS?

Example:
In an application a parent/master window shows a list of records. When
the users press ‘edit’, a greybox windows pops up where they can update
one item attributes.
Problem: after the ‘save’ and child window closing, the parent window
still contains the old attributes values.

I know how to trigger plain javascript execution in the parent, to clean
the parent window f.ex, but RJS is really what I need.

Is that possible?
TIA

Alain

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Question:
Can a child window manipulate its parent window with RJS?

As a workaround, I have the children execute some javascript code
that in turn has the parent execute some javascript code where I
inserted an Ajax call to a controller action that refreshes the parent
contents.

=> when the user submit the action in the child/greybox window, it
calls an action :

file:contact_controller.rb
def update
…
render :partial =>
‘hide_greybox_and_refresh_details_in_parent’
…
end

file: _hide_greybox_and_refresh_details_in_parent.rhtml:

, and the parent page html starts with:

My question: is there a way to execute one single RJS call in the
‘update’ function above, that would do the same as this 3-part action?

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Hello Alain

I’m right looking to obtain the same behavior.
In the meantime, did you found a solution with RJS?

Thanks,
Franco