PaulCAust — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 04:46:37 +0000

Gentlemen,
Thanks for your help. Peter thank you for your technical help and Mark thanks for your assistance in the marketing of CAPTAIN ANSWER MAN.

I have a working app now. I need to clean it up a bit but hay it works. If your interested in having a look let me know and I will send you the code (the actual app is on our intranet).

P.S. Peter your Cape is in the mail.

Paul

Peter J. Boettcher — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:00:53 +0000

Now all I need is a costume, I've already got the logo ( peanut-butter & jelly samich!)

Mark Hensler — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:42:17 +0000

P.B. 'n J. = Peanut Buttern 'n Jelly (as in the sandwich)

PaulCAust — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:26:47 +0000

umm ya what he said!!

whisper "what does that mean?"

Paul

Mark Hensler — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:23:21 +0000

Captain P.B. ('n J, haha!) 8P

Cool

PaulCAust — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:30:11 +0000

Thanks,
Thats cool! This will certainly help me along the way! You are CAPTAIN ANSWER MAN!

Regards,

A Fellow Canadian (now living in Melbourne Australia)

Paul

Peter J. Boettcher — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:25:23 +0000

Arooow indeed!

Instead of having a separate ASP page that handles the form submission, the form is submitted to itself, like:

'Check to see if form submitted
If Request.Form.Count > 0 Then
'Form handling code goes here
End If

That's just a simple example to show you what I meant.

Posting a form to itself?

PaulCAust — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 02:24:18 +0000

Aroooow? Post the form to itself? This is a new consept. Anything I should know before I enbark on my experimentation?

Thanks

Paul Curtis

Peter J. Boettcher — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:13:52 +0000

Well, there's about a million ways you could do this! In the web environment, it's not a good idea to update large amounts of data at once, it's better to send small chunks. If you were going to store everything on the client I wouldn't recommend going over 100 records.

If I were doing this for the web, I would take the approach you listed in number 1, except when they click the button to add more data I would have this form submit to itself and write the record to the database, then when the form refreshes, the record they just entered would be text (not form fields), with the new row of blank form fields below it.