Sending data in URL

[Jtown]

Is there a way to send data in the URL so I don't have to make hidden forms?

[Vaughan]

Yes. Just join all of the CDML tags together in the following manner....

FMPro?-db=file.fp5&-lay=layout&-format=page.htm&-error=error.htm... etc... &-new or edit or find

A gotcha to note is that fields used in find criteria do not have a hyphen before them. Example ...error=error.htm&fieldname=something&- ... etc

Of course, such URL-ised requests are "canned" in that the user cannot modify them. Is can be a good thing.

[Jtown]

oic...thanks for the help, but what if I want to send data that's not being used in a search or an attribute. Say I just wanted to send the results of one query to the next in the url. So say I just wanted to pass "FMForums" without making hidden text input. Can we do this and how would we get the variables out of the url?

EDIT: instead of sending any information, is there a way to retrieve what data was being searched for ie the record and NOT the field name.

[ July 12, 2001: Message edited by: Jtown ]

[Jtown]

NEVERMIND...GOT IT!

[Sharky]

dit you used "view" as action and does it work without difficult stuff?