Current Contact List

Sorry for not having answered this earlier.

POSTs, e.g. forms are not submitted automatically when a page with a form is loaded. Somebody needs to hit the submit button. Another solution is to add a Javascript command onload="document.forms[0].submit();" into the body tag. However, then you are dependent on the user if he has turned on Javascript in his browser or not.

Much better, however, is to use a GET request in your case and forget about your delegate_search page. A GET request in your case is an URL that you offer as a link. You can construct it from the information in your delegate_search by taking all the name,value pairs and adding them as &name=value in the URL:

http://www.yourhost.com/FMPro?-db=contacts.fp5&-format=delegate_summary.htm&-error=delegate_error.htm&-lay=contacts&-max=all&category=Delegate&-find

Also, try using "[FMP-Record]" tags. For example:

[FMP-Record]

[FMP-field: salutation] [FMP-field: firstname] [FMP-field: lastname]

[FMP-field: position]

[FMP-field: organization]

[FMP-field: address1]

[FMP-field: address2]

[FMP-field: city] [FMP-field: state] [FMP-field: zip]

[FMP-field: country]

email: [FMP-field: email1]

Tel: [FMP-field: phone1]

Fax: [FMP-field: fax1]

[/FMP-Record]

Good Luck.

Garry

Thanks, Martin, using the URL in the way you suggested worked!

All the best,

John

Gary:

Thanks for your reply.

Adding the [FMP-Record] field must have been obvious to you! Anyway, the resulting web page looks fine but now I have two more questions for you:

1. Is there anyway of suppressing blank lines on the web page? In my example, the field [FMP-field: position] is often empty & I'd like to remove the blank line.

2. In my search page I search on a field called "category" from the database "contacts.fp5". I would now like to search on a global field called "xgid" from a related database "groups.fp5" but display the fields from "contacts.fp5". Is this possible?

Thanks again, for your help,

John

1. You can use [FMP-If] tags to remove the blanks. Like this:

[FMP-If: position .eq.][FMP-Else][FMP-Field: position][/FMP-If]

2. You can refer the related fields with the "::". Like this:

[FMP-Field: groups::xgid]

Good Luck.

Garry

Garry:

Thanks for your help! Your answer to my first question did the job.

The second problem has not been resolved. Perhaps I was mistaken when I referred to the field I'm trying to display; I called it a related field, but now that I look at the database I see that contacts.fp5 is displaying fields from another database (groups.fp5) in this way:

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What I'm really trying to do is find records in groups.fp5 with a value of field "gid"="G15". Then I want to display contact details - name, address, etc. - from the contacts.fp5 database. Sorted by lastname from contacts.fp5.

So, in my search.htm file I have the following:

And then in my summary.htm file I've tried the following:

[FMP-field: contacts::firstname] [FMP-field: contacts::lastname]

[FMP-field: contacts::organization]

[FMP-field: contacts::address1]

[FMP-field: contacts::address2]

But the summary.htm file displays no information from the search other than the title on the page.

Any advice?

Thanks,

John

To display records from the Portal you will need to use these tags:

[FMP-Records]

[FMP-Portal: contacts]

[FMP-Field: contacts::firstname].....

[/FMP-Portal]

[/FMP-Records]

Good Luck.

Garry

p.s. I think you would need to have the Portal, on the Layout, sorted by Lastname.

Edited March 14, 200619 yr by Guest
Portal Sort