On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Alexander Batzios wrote:

Hello.

First of all I would like to thank everyone who replied to my previous question. Thanks for pointing out that it was called batching and was in dtml-in documentation. I did manage to split the results.

However, I still can't figure out how to make the record details appear. As I told you, I want the list of the results to be clickable in a field (e.g. record field) and when a user clicks on that, the record details to appear.

I've created an SQL method called sql_show_details and a Z search Interface called show_record_details. I have put "Rec" as the arguments in the sql_show_details method. Now, when I display the results I put the following entry in the results display form:

<td><a href="show_record_details"><dtml-var Rec null=""></a></td>

What I was hoping to achieve, is call the show_record_details interface with the Rec dtml-var as a parameter. The show_record_details interface calls the sql_show_details method to get the record. However, it seems that record 0 is returned all the time. I assume that it doesn't actually pass the Rec parameter for that specific row in the table. Is there a way I can do that? I tried experimenting with various alteration but nothing. In the docs, I've found <dtml-call> which calls a method passing all arguments, but it doesn't work from href.

If "Rec" is the field in your database that is the name of the record (company name or person name or whatever), and "recid" is the primary key of your table (used in the WHERE clause of the ZSQLMethod), you want something like: <a href="show_record_details?recid=&dtml-recid;"><dtml-var Rec></a> To "pass a parameter" on the web, you have to include it in the HTML request. -- Joel BURTON | joel@joelburton.com | joelburton.com | aim: wjoelburton Independent Knowledge Management Consultant