[SalesForce] Redirect one viusalforce page to another page automatically using javascript

Can anyone tell me how to redirect one visualforce page to another visualforce page automatically ?
below is my visualforce page :

< apex:page standardController="Account"
contentType="application/msWord/#Test-{!NOW()}.doc"
recordSetVar="accounts" sidebar="false" cache="true"> 

<html xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word">
    <head>


    </head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

    <body>                       
        <apex:form >
            <apex:pageBlock title="Archiver For Account">
                 <div style="text-align:left" >          
                     <apex:pageBlockTable value="{!accounts}" var="ac" >
                         <apex:column headerValue="AccountName">
                             <apex:outputText >{!ac.Name}</apex:outputText>
                         </apex:column>
                         <apex:column headerValue="Account Number">
                             <apex:outputText >{!ac.AccountNumber}</apex:outputText>
                         </apex:column>
                         <apex:column headerValue="AccountType">
                             <apex:outputText >{!ac.Type}</apex:outputText>
                         </apex:column>
                         <apex:column headerValue="Phone Number">
                             <apex:outputText >{!ac.Phone}</apex:outputText>
                         </apex:column>                                       
                     </apex:pageBlockTable>  
                  </div>           
                </apex:pageBlock>

           <apex:outputText value="hi dude,"/>
       </apex:form>

    </body>
    <script>

        function redirect(){
            window.location.href='https://c.ap1.visual.force.com/apex/AccountasTextfile'; 
        }

        window.onload = window.setTimeout(redirect(),5000);

    </script>
</html>

My question is once the document is downloaded then it will automatically redirect to another page as mentioned above.
I have tried using action attribute,calling redirect method from constructor. but nothing happen.
Finally I got the idea is using javascript we can redirect automatically.
but it dosent work for me.

Someone please tell me what I have to modify.

Thanks in advance
Karthick

Best Answer

Try using code given below in your first page :

PageReference OpenNewPage = Page.yoursecondpage;
OpenNewPage.setRedirect(false);
return OpenNewPage;

So that it won't redirect but download the word file. Let me know if this works for you.

Related Topic