Modify Last Find -- any equivalent in CDML?

[john white ifc]

The first time the user loads in the search page on my site, they should see the three text fields that are available for searching, and the text fields should be blank.

Subsequently, when that page is loaded I want the fields to be filled in with whatever search parameters were entered the previous search. In other words, I want the search page to always behave like FileMaker's Records > Modify Last Find command, except when the page is first loaded and there's no "last find" to modify.

(Clarification: When I say "previous search," I mean the user's previous search within the current visit to the site. I'm not trying to carry user preferences from visit to visit -- which, of course, would require cookies.)

By the way, I'm familiar with the looping tag [FMP-CurrentFind] and the [FMP-Find*Item] tags that work with it, but I can't figure out how they might be used to solve this problem.

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System:

FileMaker: 5.5v1

Web Companion: 5.5v4

Testing Browser: IE 5.1

[Garry Claridge]

Have a look at [FMP-Link] in the 'CDML Reference' database.

All the best.

Garry

[john white ifc]

Garry:

Thank you. I took your suggestion to heart. I looked and looked, and I slept on it then looked some more, and then I finally realized that FMP-Link could help me solve a subproblem, but that ended up leading me to a dead-end. (No criticism of your suggestion -- it was exactly the dead-end I thought I'd run into, but it took some work even just to run into it!)

So, maybe you have something else in mind. Can you say more about how FMP-Link might help?

[Anatoli]

Tokens?

[Keith M. Davie]

Anatoli - tokens.

That is what I was thinking.