after posting form go to find all

[tbeidler]

I have no idea how to do this but I bet it's simple!

In most of my cdml sites, once posting a new record I always have the following page be the posted record details, i.e. "You've submitted the following info."

I have a client that would like the page following a form submission to be the main page of their site which finds and displays all records.

I've changed the format file to the main page, <input type="hidden" name="-FORMAT" value="ec_webdev_db_main_list.html">, but when I submit a new job the following page is in the format of the main page but does not find all records, it only displays the new record.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Keith M. Davie]

Your action tag is -new, so you will always get just that record the way you are doing it.

Instead of sending directly to that page create a page "blank.htm" which has the same background style as every other page. That is all that will be loaded. Use a meta tag from html. In the URL refresh to a time = "0" and address to the desired -db, -lay and -format with the action tag -findall.

If you don't know about the meta tag of html, you should use your favorite search engine.

Peace

Keith M. Davie

[tbeidler]

Thanks Keith. I'll try it.

[tbeidler]

Kieth,

It worked fine.

Another related question. Would this be the best way to eliminate cache'ing of pages. It seems like when I make edits to an individual record and go immediately to the list page of all records, the most current changes are not reflected. Should I force pages to refresh everytime they're loaded?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Keith M. Davie]

I'm sorry, but I don't know the answer to the cacheing question.

Peace

Keith

[elvis_impersonating_penguin]

to answer your caching question, when working with a page that is refreshed frequently with new data i always put these two commands in the head of my document.

<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="0">

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">

this causes the browser to not look for the document in cache but instead always pull it from the server.

[This message has been edited by bman (edited March 02, 2001).]

[Keith M. Davie]

Thanks bman.

Peace

Keith

[tbeidler]

Thanks bman, it worked perfectly.