I need to redirect the parent window based on a custom html form submission from within Retool. Retool is hosted in an iframe on my webpage. Trying to use window.top.location.href = "http://example.com"; causes the following error: Failed to set the 'href' property on 'Location': The current window…

Hi @DakotaB ! We have a utils.openUrl() function that lets you open a link either in a new tab or the same retool tab. If this url change is from a custom html component, you could trigger a Run JS Code type query from the customer component

Redirect parent window from Retool

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tradesorg_chris November 19, 2022, 1:32am 5

Did this ever get addressed? Or a workaround identified?

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