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You HTML would look something like this:

<td align="right"> <form method="POST" action="Tickets/TicketForm"> <input type="submit" value="Scale Entry"></form> </td><td valign="bottom">

This is good information to have thank you.

But in instances like a DB query form where you might use the same form to perform a search, or a record update or add a new record, it is acceptable form to use the :method method?

Yup, that would be a good example. I have also used it several times in a 'Are you sure' question. Yes would submit the form with hidden data, No would send the suer back to the form they were filling in, so they can correct.