Re: multiple record replace

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 39964
interpreted = N
texte = I hadn't seen your form source before my last reply. There are several problems there.First, your
tag is inside of the [founditems] loop. This will create multiple embedded forms, one for each found items, without matching
tags, as this must be outside of the [founditems] and therefore occurring only once.Do a Show Source in the browser to see what I mean...Second, I don't see end tags for your [/search] - brian At 4:24 PM -0600 11/7/2001, Lester Emo wrote: >If I do this I and I have 5 items having their approved field >being changed, no data gets written back to the db > >When I set up a page showing what formvariables are being passed to >this page with [replace] what I see is the first field only. > >Am I using [formvariables] incorrectly here?? > > >> >>WebCat can see all the passed in uniqueID values, but only within >>a [formvariables] context. To set the approved flag for all the >>checked records, >>you could do this: >>[formvariables name=uniqueID&exact=T] >>[replace >>db=../listings.db&equniqueIDdata=[value]]approved=[approved][/replace] >>[/formvariables] >> >>- Brian > > >> Here's my scenario: >> >> A search in a database is done. >> the results page shows >> >> name phone createdate approved uniqueID >> >> I'm wanting to be able to Approve or Unapprove on this page, with the >> results being written back into the database records >> The approve/unapprove items change daily. >> >> I've tried this with checkboxes and with a yes/no select form element. >> Both ways I get weird results, sometimes the approve part gets written >> back as wanted, other times not, most times not. >> >> If I go to the individual item and change Approved all behaves as >needed. >> Its just in this mass change scenario it fails. >> >> I saw a post where I think this was sorta answered, but i got lost >following >> the code . . . >> . >> code from the search result page ========================== > > > > > width=100%> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> [FoundItems] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> [/FoundItems] >>
NamePhoneCreatedApprovedUniqueID
>> [Name] >> >> [Phone1] >> >> [createdate] >> > > >> >> [uniqueID] >>
> > >> >> > > > > >> replace context code follows on the submit approved changes page >> ========================== >> >> >> >> [replace > > db=../listings.db&equniqueIDdata=[uniqueID]]&approved=[approved][/replace] >> -- <= Brian C. Fries, BrainScan Software http://www.brainscansoftware.com =>------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: multiple record replace (Brian Fries 2001)
  2. Re: multiple record replace (Lester Emo 2001)
  3. Re: multiple record replace (Brian Fries 2001)
  4. Re: multiple record replace (Donovan Brooke 2001)
  5. Re: multiple record replace (Donovan Brooke 2001)
  6. Re: multiple record replace (Donovan Brooke 2001)
  7. Re: multiple record replace (Donovan Brooke 2001)
  8. Re: multiple record replace (Stephen Russo 2001)
  9. Re: multiple record replace (Sally Reidy 2001)
  10. Re: multiple record replace (Christer Olsson 2001)
  11. Re: multiple record replace (Glenn Busbin 2001)
  12. Re: multiple record replace (Ron Parker 2001)
  13. Re: multiple record replace (Brian Boegershausen 2001)
  14. multiple record replace (Rich Kwasniewski 2001)
I hadn't seen your form source before my last reply. There are several problems there.First, your tag is inside of the [founditems] loop. This will create multiple embedded forms, one for each found items, without matching tags, as this must be outside of the [founditems] and therefore occurring only once.Do a Show Source in the browser to see what I mean...Second, I don't see end tags for your Approved ... [/founditems] [/search] - brian At 4:24 PM -0600 11/7/2001, Lester Emo wrote: >If I do this I and I have 5 items having their approved field >being changed, no data gets written back to the db > >When I set up a page showing what formvariables are being passed to >this page with [replace] what I see is the first field only. > >Am I using [formvariables] incorrectly here?? > > >> >>WebCat can see all the passed in uniqueID values, but only within >>a [formvariables] context. To set the approved flag for all the >>checked records, >>you could do this: >>[formvariables name=uniqueID&exact=T] >>[replace >>db=../listings.db&equniqueIDdata=[value]]approved=[approved][/replace] >>[/formvariables] >> >>- Brian > > >> Here's my scenario: >> >> A search in a database is done. >> the results page shows >> >> name phone createdate approved uniqueID >> >> I'm wanting to be able to Approve or Unapprove on this page, with the >> results being written back into the database records >> The approve/unapprove items change daily. >> >> I've tried this with checkboxes and with a yes/no select form element. >> Both ways I get weird results, sometimes the approve part gets written >> back as wanted, other times not, most times not. >> >> If I go to the individual item and change Approved all behaves as >needed. >> Its just in this mass change scenario it fails. >> >> I saw a post where I think this was sorta answered, but i got lost >following >> the code . . . >> . >> code from the search result page ========================== > > > > > width=100%> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> [founditems] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> [/FoundItems] >>
NamePhoneCreatedApprovedUniqueID
>> [Name] >> >> [Phone1] >> >> [createdate] >> > > >> >> [uniqueID] >>
> > >> >> > > > > >> replace context code follows on the submit approved changes page >> ========================== >> >> >> >> [replace > > db=../listings.db&equniqueIDdata=[uniqueID]]&approved=[approved][/replace] >> -- <= Brian C. Fries, BrainScan Software http://www.brainscansoftware.com =>------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Brian Fries

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