URL To Predefined Search Link (FMP 6 Unlimited)

[John_Aikenway]

Current Contact List

[Martin Brändle]

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

[Garry Claridge]

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

[John_Aikenway]

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

All the best,

John

[John_Aikenway]

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

[Garry Claridge]

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

[John_Aikenway]

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

[Garry Claridge]

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, 2006 by Guest
Portal Sort