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How can I determine what Page the app is coming from during a PageShow event? For example, during PageShow I am executing a service call to get data. When I click on the data I will navigate to another page. If I then click the back button to return to original page the PageShow will fire again and execute that same service call when it is not needed. Is there a way to determine when I am coming from before executing my service call?

Hello! You can check previous page name on Page Show event using the following JS:
codevar prevPageName = '';
if(arguments[1]["prevPage"][0]) {
prevPageName = $(arguments[1]["prevPage"][0]).attr("dsid");
}/code

There is also another way - you can create local storage variable and before service call check - if variable is set then call the service, else - do not call the service.

That works great. I had something working with local storage but like this method better.

Thanks for all the help.

Hi there

I tried the code you provided Maryna, unfortunately I get an exception because arguments[1] is undefined. Do you have an idea what's going wrong?

Thanks for your help
Samuel

Hello Sam,

Unfortunately you can't do this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40...
But you can write name of the page in localStorage, and after that you can read it on the next page.

Hi Evgene

Thank you for your suggestion, I'll work with the localStorage approach.