How do you Pass data from .asp to .csp page

[seanmahabadi]

I have an application created with .asp pages with interdev. I am incorporating Crytal Enterprise 8.5 for my reporting needs. I have used the Crystal Report Wizards for creating the reporting environment. I would like pass a session variable from my asp enviroment to a csp page to be used as a paramenter in a report. Is there a trick for passing data from an .asp page to a .csp page.

first of all I thought I could access a session variable, but it seems like in the .csp pages I can't see the session variables that were set up on the .asp side.

So then I figured I would pass the data I need through the hyperlink. On my main menu the link that launches the reports. so my href would read: default.csp?UserID=123

I use this method all time between my .asp pages , but from .asp to .csp nothing comes accross.

Any help on this topic would be appreciated.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
I use that method ( as well as using FORM items) on most ( if not all) my CSP and ASP pages to pass info ...

On your CSP page does your
Request.QueryString.Item("UserID&quot properly get the value?
Try a

 Response.Write(Request.QueryString.Item("UserID"))

to see what was actually passed.


hth,

 

[seanmahabadi]

Thanks for the reply Turkbear. Yes I tried the request.querystring and nothing comes across. Have you done this from .asp to .csp ?

Here's exactly what I'm doing.

On my main menu (asp) I have a link called "Reports" - the href of Reports redirects to:
Reports/Default.csp?UserID=57
the user id obviously is dynamic)

So now in Default.csp we have the code
UserID = Request.QueryString.Item("UserID&quot
But nothing has come across

any thoughts ???

 

[Turkbear]

Hi, Yes I use a combination of CSP and ASP pages and send 'stuff' between them - I use a JavaScript function, for instance, on an ASP page, to open a new window and call a CSP page with passed parameters:
Code Snippets Follow

 reportWindow = window.open("empviewerV3.csp?qid=" + pstr + "&progid=" + progid + "&rid=" + m + "&invr=" + istr,"rptWindow",windowprops);

The empviewer3.csp page then processes the passed variables:

action = "viewrpt.cwr?id=" + Request.QueryString.Item("rid") + Request.QueryString.Item("qid") + "&init=" + Request.QueryString.Item("invr") + Server.URLEncode(":connect");

As to why yours does not work, it is hard to say:
Try building 2 simple pages:
1: an asp page that just accepts a numeric value and calls the second ( csp ) page with a ?PassedValue=999 ( or whatever)..
This CSP page just has a
Response.Write(Request.QueryString.Item("PassedValue&quot);
on it..

That way all other variables ar eliminated so it will be easier to debug.

 

[seanmahabadi]

Thanks Turkbear.
The problem wasn't .asp & .csp afterall

Since I used the wizard to set up the entire reporting environment. Some ugly convoluted code was throwing me way off. After tracing through it I found the problem.

Serves me right for trying to take a short cut and use a wizard.

 

[Reebo99]

I would like to bring to your attention the following description taken from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

Wizard: a pretender to supernatural knowledge and power, "a knowing one," as the original Hebrew word signifies. Such an one was forbidden on pain of death to practise his deceptions.

Quite fitting, I think......

Reebo
UK