Brilliant!

artsapimp — Wed, 08 Aug 2001 15:03:28 +0000

Thank you very much. I have this application working right now but that is a great idea. I will use that in the future.

sersun — Wed, 08 Aug 2001 01:34:44 +0000

I don't know for sure if this answers your question, but I performed a hack that lets you pass 2 vars through one form element.

Here's the example:

Illinois

The "&" adds the second value pair: state_id=66, so the resulting target becomes:

nextpage.phtml?state_name=Illinois&state_id=66

You could theoretically pass as many values as you want, all throught the one select element.

artsapimp — Tue, 07 Aug 2001 17:51:43 +0000

Thank you very much, you have answered my question. After trying it I found it was impossible to do it the way I wanted so I had to create a little bit of sloppy code to make it work. I will try to explain it and please tell me if you can think of a better way.

The application is a Decision Tree for employees in a technical support department. Once the employee chooses the error the customer is getting he is then faced with Yes No questions and troubleshooting steps 1 at a time to walk him/her through the processes. Each step is then saved into a session seperated by a comma. The rep can then hit a "Copy Notes" button which copies everything done into the clipboard so he/she can paste it into the internal ticketing system.

The way I display the notes before being copied is by splitting them into an array and writing them into a table on one side of the screen. Every step taken creates another step which adds to the notes. Because I need the rep to see the notes, not the autonumber which is how I could find the associated troubleshooting steps. I am forced to pass 2 pieces of data (Autonumber & Statement) to make that happen.

I ended up passing the notes as "Autonumber, Statement, " and then I am running an if statement to check for a numeric value for each node of the array. If it is a number I am creating the link and not displaying the number, otherwise I am just writing the step taken.

I'm sorry if this didn't make much sense but like I said I'm not good at explaining this.

Has anyone created something like this before? Is there anything I'm missing?

Thanks for your help.

Mark Hensler — Tue, 07 Aug 2001 17:26:32 +0000

if your going to be passing anything via the querystring, be sure to escape everything.
ASP: Server.URLEncode(string)
JS: escape(string)

You can also pass values between pages via cookies.

If you want to pass multiple values in one form item, try mixing the value. Here is some Quicky Code (untested). I haven't played with ASP for a while, so there may be a better way to do this.

## HTML PAGE ##
<select name="blah">
  <option value="id|statement">option1</option>
</select>

## ASP PAGE ##
<%
tmp_array = split(Request.Form("blah"), "|")
id = tmp_array(0)
statement = tmp_array(1)
%>

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curious.. why are you passing an autonumber?