Can a lightbox that wasn't opened progamically be closed programically?

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I have a lightbox opened by clicking a horizontal menu item. I want to close it via a gallery _click function inside it. Then pass the .currentItem click data from the lightbox gallery to the page. When I try a simple wixWindow.Lightbox.close(); it returns undefined and the .getContext function for the lightbox doesn’t appear either. Any thoughts?

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The undefined message has to do with Lightbox needing to be in lower case.

wixWindow.lightbox.close();
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After several failed attempts, and everything I read suggesting that in order to pass back data to the page, the lightbox DOES need to be opened programically, I came up with this workaround in case anyone is interested:

//For context the gallery is a 3D carousel with two images whose names include the 3rd and 4th "const" values. The page is the overlay area outside the lightbox.

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* Lightbox Code *
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import wixWindow from "wix-window";

$w.onReady(function() {
   $w("#campaignsgallery").onItemClicked((event) => {
      const imageSelected = $w("#" + event.target.id).currentItem.title;
      const anchorName = imageSelected.match(/[^UniTEE Campaign(](.+?)(?=\))/g)[0];
      if(wixWindow.formFactor === "Mobile") {
          const quarantine        = 429;
          const revolutionary     = 244;
      }
      else {
          const quarantine        = 1350;
          const revolutionary     = 1011;
      }
      wixWindow.getBoundingRect()
         .then((view) => {
         const leftOffset = view.scroll.x;
         wixWindow.scrollTo(leftOffset, eval(anchorName));
         wixWindow.lightbox.close();
      });
   });
   $w("#page").onClick((event) => {
      wixWindow.lightbox.close(); 
   });
});

Closes when you click outside the lightbox and when clicking a gallery item, it scrolls to the corresponding anchor and also closes the lightbox. It really mimics flawlessly the standard (non-code) Wix functionality.

ps. Thanks Anthony for the tip, I missed that.