I want to call the ShowPopup method on a drilldown event in certain situations, but since not possible through scripting, could it be done through your workaround?

You’d use a similar trick to comment (2) above: set up three separate buttons for your three popup applets, with the ShowPopup method configured correctly on each. Make all three of these buttons hidden. Then configure a fourth button to invoke a browser script which ‘clicks’ the appropriate ShowPopup button using the FindActiveXControl hack.

nice hack. I have a requirement. I have to popup one of three different pop up applets based on various conditons in a script, triggered from a single button. The user clicks only one button, but one of the three applets should be popped . How can this be done ?

I don’t think the ‘Popup’ buttons have to be visible to be programatically clicked… So you can create two hidden buttons to popup your two buttons, then two visible buttons that invoke the hidden buttons through different methods. These ‘wrapper’ methods could then be enabled through PreCanInvoke events as usual.

Interested to know if it works!

Here’s a followup question: Let’s say you have 2 such controls on your applet that popup different applets. You would like to conditionally disable one of the two controls. How can you disable one ShowPopup control without disabling the other.

You can’t invoke the ‘ShowPopup’ method directly through script. Instead, you need to create your button as described above, then you can ‘click’ this button programmatically using the browser script ‘FindActiveXControl’ hack described in Popping up the Persistent Dashboard.

Hope that sets you on your way. Will write up a proper explanation once I’ve caught up from the holiday…