kenwright
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| Posted: 01/20/2011, 3:57 PM |
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I have a form to add a database record. Once the user enters all the information and submits the form I want the same form to be displayed again with all the values from the previous submission filled in as defaults. How can I do this in CCS?
I looked at viewstate but I don't see a way in CCS to use it.
I see in CCS I can preserve all the POST parameters and they get added as GET parameters in the next load of the form but they are not automatically populated in to the form. Is there an additional step I have to do in CCS to get them to populate the fields? Or do I have to hand code setting every form field (there are alot in my case)?
is there a better way to do this in CCS?
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datadoit
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| Posted: 01/20/2011, 4:03 PM |
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Sounds like you really just want to stay on the newly created record,
but now in update mode? See my post here:
http://www.codechargesupport.com/blog/index.php?action=More&post_id=2
I don't know how you would adjust it to work in .Net and presumably SQL
Server.
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kenwright
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| Posted: 01/20/2011, 5:46 PM |
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No, I want to contunue adding new records. The user in this case is adding a batch of records and all the records in a batch have mostly the same information and I'm trying to save the effort of reselecting all the same values for the next record to add.
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datadoit
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| Posted: 01/21/2011, 5:41 AM |
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Given that you're preserving Get and Post values, you could then for
each form field's BeforeShow add a Retrieve Value for Control action,
and you'll be retrieving CCGetFromGet().
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kenwright
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| Posted: 01/26/2011, 12:16 PM |
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Thatnks, that worked using the BeforeShow event and pulling the GET parameter. But there seems to be a problem with Preserve Get and Post Parameters. The first time I fill in the form the parameters are available as GET parameters. So far so good. But then if I change a value of one of the fields and do another submit, the query string of GET parameters isn't reflecting this last value! It still has the first value that was entered!
Is this by design? If so, is there a way to change the behavior? Or is there a better way to handle this? maybe session variables?
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datadoit
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| Posted: 01/26/2011, 1:05 PM |
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That is by design per standards. Post parameters will go away after a
submit.
You can either grab those values and toss them into a session variable
in the Before Insert event, or I would recommend that you grab the
last_insert_id() of the last inserted record (via After Insert event),
put that into a session variable or the URL, and then in the Before Show
for your controls do a DLookup action to get those values from the database.
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datadoit
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| Posted: 01/26/2011, 1:17 PM |
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Or Convert.ToInt32(cmd.ExecuteScalar()) for .net.
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ReneS
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| Posted: 01/27/2011, 2:51 AM |
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Hi,
Seems what you want is "copy" the record with some fields changed.
So why not change your update button to copy... Somewhere in the forum it is explained very well, i think it was an old post of Nicole.
Search forum for "copy record" or clone record or some sort
Rene
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