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Topic: returning values from db using pull down
Posted By: Yama
Subject: returning values from db using pull down
Date Posted: 15 February 2003 at 10:23pm

I am very new to asp so any help will be greatly appreciated.

I have a very simple access database with one table with 5 fields which are Alarm, description, Action, priority, category.

I have managed to make a pull down menu which is populated from the Alarm column. I have then inserted a database results region using Frontpage (not sure how wise that is!!) which outputs the the  5 fields in a scrolling text area based on the selection that is made from the pull down menu.

The problem is I cannot get the pull menu to give the database results region to take the value and return the results. I know it may be a mistake to try to use the frontpage database function but I am very new to working with asp and databases.

The following is the code on my page. I appologise for the length of my post.

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<form method="POST" action="new_test_alarms.asp" name="alarmListing">

 

<select size="1" name="ReefAlarms" bgcolor="#008000" tabindex="1">

<option selected>Select...</option>

<%

strDataSource="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=c:\nkcweb\fpdb\reef_fault_management.mdb; Persist Security Info=False"

set conn = server.createobject ("adodb.connection")

conn.open strDataSource

set RSAlarmDescription = conn.Execute("SELECT Alarm from AlarmDescription ORDER by Alarm")

 

' Populate form pull-down list

Do Until RSalarmdescription.EOF %>

<option value="<% response.write RSalarmdescription("Alarm") %>"><% response.write RSalarmdescription("alarm") %></option>

<%

RSalarmDescription.MoveNext

Loop

' End of Populate

' =================================================================

 

%>

<input type="submit" value="Go" name="B2" tabindex="5"></td>

</form>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<!--webbot bot="DatabaseRegionStart" startspan

s-columnnames="ID,Alarm,Description,Action,Severity,Category"

s-columntypes="3,203,203,203,3,203" s-dataconnection="Database1"

b-tableformat="FALSE" b-menuformat="FALSE" s-menuchoice s-menuvalue

b-tableborder="TRUE" b-tableexpand="TRUE" b-tableheader="TRUE"

b-listlabels="TRUE" b-listseparator="TRUE" i-ListFormat="8" b-makeform="TRUE"

s-recordsource="AlarmDescription"

s-displaycolumns="Alarm,Description,Action,Severity,Category"

s-criteria="[Alarm] EQ {Alarm} +" s-order

s-sql="SELECT * FROM AlarmDescription WHERE (Alarm = '::Alarm::')"

b-procedure="FALSE" clientside SuggestedExt="asp" s-DefaultFields="Alarm="

s-NoRecordsFound="No records returned." i-MaxRecords="1" i-GroupSize="0"

BOTID="0" u-dblib="_fpclass/fpdblib.inc" u-dbrgn1="_fpclass/fpdbrgn1.inc"

u-dbrgn2="_fpclass/fpdbrgn2.inc" tag="BODY"

local_preview="&lt;table border=0 width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor=&quot;#FFFF00&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;Database Results regions will not preview unless this page is fetched from a Web server using a web browser. The section of the page from here to the end of the Database Results region will repeat once for each record returned by the query.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;"

preview="<table border=0 width=&quot;100%&quot;><tr><td bgcolor=&quot;#FFFF00&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;><font color=&quot;#000000&quot;>This is the start of a Database Results region. The page must be fetched from a web server with a web browser to display correctly; the current web is stored on your local disk or network.</font></td></tr></table>" --><!--#include file="_fpclass/fpdblib.inc"-->

<%

fp_sQry="SELECT * FROM AlarmDescription WHERE (Alarm = '::Alarm::')"

fp_sDefault="Alarm="

fp_sNoRecords="No records returned."

fp_sDataConn="Database1"

fp_iMaxRecords=1

fp_iCommandType=1

fp_iPageSize=0

fp_fTableFormat=False

fp_fMenuFormat=False

fp_sMenuChoice=""

fp_sMenuValue=""

fp_iDisplayCols=5

fp_fCustomQuery=False

BOTID=0

fp_iRegion=BOTID

%>

<!--#include file="_fpclass/fpdbrgn1.inc"-->

<!--webbot bot="DatabaseRegionStart" i-CheckSum="2326" endspan -->

<form METHOD="POST" >

<!--webbot bot="PurpleText"

PREVIEW="Set this form's properties so it submits user input to the appropriate page."

-->

<table BORDER="0">

<tr>

<td><b>Alarm:</b></td>

<td><textarea NAME="Alarm" ROWS="2" COLS="40"><%=FP_FieldHTML(fp_rs,"Alarm")%></textarea></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><b>Description:



Replies:
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 17 February 2003 at 8:17am
Are you using frontpage?

Posted By: peterm
Date Posted: 17 February 2003 at 10:48am

Hello,

First of all, I recommend you ditch the Frontpage stuff because (imo) it over complicates things with mass code and makes it very hard (especially for newbies) to try and change anything. Hunt through the wealth of asp tutorials and you should be able to get around listing records from a table.

But from what you have, when you submit your form it should go to new_test_alarms.asp. If you open up this page and type the following:

Response.Write Request.Form("ReefAlarms")

You will see that it will return your selected option from the list. (which I gather you wanted to do?)

Any further probs just reply to this thread and im sure someone can help you :)

Posted By: Yama
Date Posted: 18 February 2003 at 11:55am

Thank you


Posted By: Yama
Date Posted: 18 February 2003 at 2:02pm

I have tried it the following way and still nothing. I think I will be doing by trial and error until I can grasp it through my thick head. So in the meantime any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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<%

strDataSource="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=C:\NKCWeb\fpdb\alarm_management.mdb; Persist Security Info=False"

set conn = server.createobject ("adodb.connection")

conn.open strDataSource

set RSnextgen_alarm_list = conn.Execute("SELECT * FROM nextgen_alarm_list ORDER BY Alarm")

%>

<form METHOD="POST" ACTION="alarm_management_page.asp">

<select Name="Alarmpull">

<option selected>Select...............</option>

<%

 

'****************************This section Loads the drop down menu with Alarm list from database********************************

 

Do Until RSnextgen_alarm_list.EOF %>

<option value="<% response.write RSnextgen_alarm_list("Alarm") %>"><% response.write RSnextgen_alarm_list("alarm") %></option>

<% RSnextgen_alarm_list.MoveNext

Loop

conn.close

'********************************************************************************************************************************

%>

</select>

 

<input TYPE="Submit" Value="Find">

</form>&nbsp;

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<Form Method="POST">

<%

'***********************In This section I am trying to get the data from the database based on the selection made above*********

strAlarm= request.form("Alarmpull")

strDataSource="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=C:\NKCWeb\fpdb\alarm_management.mdb; Persist Security Info=False"

set conn = server.createobject ("adodb.connection")

conn.open strDataSource

strSQL="SELECT * FROM nextgen_alarm_list WHERE alarm"

set RSALarm = conn.execute(strSQL)

strSQL="SELECT nextgen_alarm_list.description, nextgen_alarm_list.action, nextgen_alarm_list.priority, nextgen_alarm_list.category, "

 set RSretrieved_list = conn.execute(strSQL)

'***********And below I am trying to output the info onto the screen*********

%>

<textarea rows="2" name="S1" cols="20"><%=RSalarm("Alarm") %></textarea>

<textarea rows="6" name="S1" cols="30"><%=RSalarm("description")%></textarea>

<textarea rows="6" name="S1" cols="30"><%=RSalarm("action")%></textarea>

<textarea rows="2" name="S1" cols="20"><%=RSalarm("priority")%></textarea>

<textarea rows="2" name="S1" cols="20"><%=RSalarm("Category")%></textarea>

</Form>


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