I guess I should start by saying that I have VERY little programming experience, but am trying to design a database to help me keep track of veterinary radiation therapy and chemotherapy treatments. I have a chemotherapy treatment sheet that makes use of an indexed field (patient case number) and the treatment number for a particular patient. Whenever I create a new patient using the web browser, the new record is created when I hit "submit", but the browser refreshes to another record in the database, rather than to the record I just created. I have tried multiple scripts, with no success. Is there a way for me to have the new record appear in the browser once I hit the submit key? Multiple students will be using this system, so it needs to be as simple as possible (read: asking them to search for the unique treatment number for a particular patient is not going to work).

I don't have enough programming expertise to "go custom" as seems to be a frequent rallying cry.

Thanks for any help,

Neal

Neal, I have no programming experience. I do have FileMaker development experience. I also learned how to write html. I already knew how to copy and paste. A lot of writing html can be handled with copy and paste. Or you can buy an html editing program and learn how to use that. I believe some people have recommended GoLive.

And sure there is a learning curve to overcome in doing custom publishing, but it can be overcome. And there are many schools, courses, demonstrations and tutorials if you want to get some help. There also are the internet forums here. And I recently put a demonstration on the Sample Files forum which is solution specific, but also a farily transparent example of custom publishing. If you are interested you can get it an look at it yourself.

Also, while IWP allows very simple single script steps, a set of up to three very select scripts, with CWP scripts are generally avoided because ScriptMaker is single-threaded (can handle only one event at a time and does not queue multiple event requests). Complex ScriptMaker scripts can be run safely and effectively over the web in a CWP solution as I demonstrate at my site.

Another option is to hire a knowledgeable developer to write your custom solution.