How to refresh a parent form after a plugin is executed on a child window?

Question

I have a plugin that updates a value in the Contact Form after an Email has been created.

I need to refresh the Contact form after this plugin runs without having to close and reopen the form to see the update. Is this possible ?

Answer 1

You can't use a plugin to force a refresh in a client window. Plugins run on the server, and don't have a way to communicate directly with the client that caused the update.

But, if you have some sort of Ribbon button on the Contact form that creates the e-mail, you could refresh the page from the javascript.