Need 2 submit buttons!

[JohannIcon]

Dear All,

I have a form where i have some text fields the user must enter. Then what I need is 2 submit buttons, so that I can process these fields differently, depending on the submit button the user pressed. How can I have 2 submit buttons in one form?

Thanks for your help

 

[mumbojumbo]

Just make it look like there's two, have two forms

ooooooooooooooooooooooooh bugger.

 

[JohannIcon]

Yeah I know you can make 2 forms, but the form is quite long and I wish to display only one form! Is that possible?

 

[Biffy13]

Why not do something like:

<input type=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;submit1&quot; value=&quot;Submit&quot;>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;submit2&quot; value=&quot;Submit&quot;>

Then when you request the form objects use:

if request.form(&quot;submit1&quot <> &quot;&quot; then
..do your stuff
elseif request.form(&quot;submit2&quot <> &quot;&quot; then
..do your stuff
end if

or try giving the buttons different values:

<input type=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Submit 1&quot;>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Submit 2&quot;>

when you request the form objects

select case(request.form(&quot;submit&quot)
case &quot;Submit 1&quot;
'do something
case &quot;Submit 2&quot;
'do something else
case else
'don't do anything!
end select

Make any sense?

 

[JohannIcon]

Yeah it does make sense, however, after pressing the submit button, i am retreiving the values in another ASP page, so for example:-

<input type=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;submit1&quot; value=&quot;Submit&quot;>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;submit2&quot; value=&quot;Submit&quot;>

Then when you request the form objects use:

if request.form(&quot;submit1&quot <> &quot;&quot; then
how can i redirect to the ASP with the values and not using a request.querysting?

end if

Thanks for your help

 

[shaddow]

how can i redirect to the ASP with the values and not using a request.querysting?

Use Server.Transfer &quot;asppage.asp&quot;


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George, M

 

[JohannIcon]

Thanks shaddow

I did the following:-

<%
if request.form(&quot;submit1&quot <> &quot;&quot; then
Server.Transfer (&quot;bsearchweb.asp?groupid=&quot;&groupID)
elseif request.form(&quot;submit2&quot <> &quot;&quot; then
Server.Transfer (&quot;bsearchisl.asp?groupid=&quot;&groupID)
end if
%>

however, I got the following message:-

Server object, ASP 0235 (0x80004005)
Invalid URL form or fully-qualified absolute URL was used. Use relative URLs.

 

[JohannIcon]

Ok I fixed it. I passed the groupID var as a hidden field and then

<%
if request.form(&quot;submit1&quot <> &quot;&quot; then
Server.Transfer (&quot;bsearchweb.asp&quot
elseif request.form(&quot;submit2&quot <> &quot;&quot; then
Server.Transfer (&quot;bsearchisl.asp&quot
end if
%>

 

[shaddow]

Not shure bu try to use
Server.Transfer &quot;bsearchweb.asp?groupid=&quot;&groupID
and not
Server.Transfer (&quot;bsearchweb.asp?groupid=&quot;&groupID)

As for the error. Are all files in same directory? or they are separate(html form, processing asp, and redirected asp)


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George, M

 

[JohannIcon]

Thanks Shaddow it worked fine.

Thanks for all your help!

 

[shaddow]

ah interesting problem.
well as i knw sending a form as submit with both querry string or form fields works but seems to not work on Server.Transfer


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George, M

 

[JohannIcon]

No I was doing a search and found out that Server.Transfer does not allow a querystring, however you can pass the value as a hidden field in the form. I think that solves the problem

 

[shaddow]

Yes, never did that i always use form fields instead of querry strings. But that is good to knw.
Thanks.

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George, M

 

[JohannIcon]

Well with this new term I have found today, I will try not to user querystrings anymore if that is possible since that gave me a lot of problems with site search. My site search is not working properly cause it expects a querysting.

 

[shaddow]

Site search with Querystrings as somone sayed help bookmarking some search results.

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George, M

 

[JohannIcon]

What do you mean? I did not understand?

I tried to run a site search utility I had found in hotscripts.com, however my results were not as I would have expected since my pages were like page.asp?mainid=1 and mainid was not being retrieved. I hope you understand what I am talking about

 

[shaddow]

What i mean is that if somone does a search and he wants to add to favorites for example it wont work without querry strings.
You cant bookmark form fields as i knw.

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George, M

 

[JohannIcon]

I think we are not understanding each other mate.

I tried to use a search site utility, but did not work cause if only retreived the name of the pages, for example page.asp and not page.asp?mainid=1.

I think it has nothing to do with forms

 

[shaddow]

Yes that's true.
We was on different paths.

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George, M