Help With Pop Ups

[Guest]

I have designed our company intranet to have a pop up with "tips of the day"
notices...however, the problem is everytime the users go to the homepage, the
pop up comes up. Is there a way to set it so that it only comes up once per
day or once in the morning and once in the afternoon? Is there some script
that can be added to the page that the users' workstations can identify if
the page has been viewed once and not appear again for another few hours?

I am using FP2003 on XP workstations.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You could set a cookie, and have it expire the next day.

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Kevin Spencer
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Microsoft MVP
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[Guest]

Thank you Kevin,

I appreciate the response, but I'm not knowledgable on how to set cookies
that expire.

Can you help me with this?

Thank you

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

You should be aware automatic popups are blocked by Win XP SP2
See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2brows.mspx

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| Thank you Kevin,
|
| I appreciate the response, but I'm not knowledgable on how to set cookies
| that expire.
|
| Can you help me with this?
|
| Thank you
|
| "Kevin Spencer" wrote:
|
| > You could set a cookie, and have it expire the next day.
| >
| > --
| > HTH,
| > Kevin Spencer
| > ..Net Developer
| > Microsoft MVP
| > Neither a follower
| > nor a lender be.
| >
| > message | > > I have designed our company intranet to have a pop up with "tips of the
| > day"
| > > notices...however, the problem is everytime the users go to the homepage,
| > the
| > > pop up comes up. Is there a way to set it so that it only comes up once
| > per
| > > day or once in the morning and once in the afternoon? Is there some
| > script
| > > that can be added to the page that the users' workstations can identify if
| > > the page has been viewed once and not appear again for another few hours?
| > >
| > > I am using FP2003 on XP workstations.
| >
| >
| >

 

[Andrew Murray]

if you're using the "onload" event - it is going to do it every time.

maybe use the "onclick" event, then the user can choose to view or not as
"onload" popups are blocked by Firewalls where users have this set and they won't
get the thing at all. At least with onload, the user can choose.

 

[Clark]

Or you could just lose the popups! Have you asked anyone if they would
miss them?