How to create a Force Reload link
Often, when creating and editing pages, the new page fails to appear. This behaviour is caused when the browser keeps a copy of the old page in the "cache". Then instead of getting the new (changed) page from the server, it continues to display the old copy from the cache.
Heres how you can force the the browser to get a fresh copy whenever you want:
To Create a Force Reload Link, (in Internet Explorer)
- From the Favorites menu, choose Add to Favorites.
- Choose the Links Folder to ensure that the new link appears in the Links Toolbar, and click OK. This creates a dummy favorits that we'll fix in the next two steps.
- Right click on the new favorite that jsust appeared, and choose Rename. in the new name field, type Reload and click OK.
- Right click on the new favorite again and choose Properties> in the URL field type javascript:window.location.reload(true) and click OK.
- The new link should appear on the Links Toolbar. Click the link to activate the command.

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