SEARCH QUESTION

[Lambro]

I have a program I wrote in ASP for my Symbol scanner. It has 4 fields, Location, Item, Pack Quantity and Quantity.

When I scan the first field location, I would like for it to search the location table for any items that match and display those items on the screen.

I can do that by submitting the form after the location scan. Here's the catch, I would like after the form is submitted to keep the location I just scanned in the text field. Instead it clears the text field and I have to re enter it in.

Once it keeps the location, it should focus on the next field which would be the item field.

Thanks

 

[JamesLean]

So the form page is submitting to itself? This should help:

<%
If Request.Form(&quot;loc&quot;) <> &quot;&quot; Then
  'process form input
End If
%>

<form action=&quot;page.asp&quot; method=&quot;post&quot;>
<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;loc&quot; value=&quot;<%=Request.Form(&quot;loc&quot;)%>&quot;>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot;>
</form>

--James

 

[SheRa]

You should be able to do this when the page reloads:

<INPUT TYPE=&quot;text&quot; id=&quot;mytextfield&quot; value=&quot;<%Request.Form(&quot;mytextfield&quot%>&quot;>

Because on the form submission, the value for the 'mytextfield' field is submitted, you can get at it from the Request.Form collection.

SheRa M&M's are better than money because you can eat them.

 

[SheRa]

Oops... forgot the =. Should be...

<INPUT TYPE=&quot;text&quot; id=&quot;mytextfield&quot; value=&quot;<%Request.Form(&quot;mytextfield&quot%>&quot;>

And JamesLean is absolutely right that you should likely check for empty strings too. I'm just too lazy to write that.

SheRa M&M's are better than money because you can eat them.