what about filling in the big form and then the next step can be uploading the image??
Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce, Rodney S HQISEC/SIGNAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 3:52 PM Subject: RE: ot:submit form to itself > Would be nice, but can't > > because when the user gets to the main form, he makes selections that fill > in the form and based on these selections the new file name is created (plus > there 20 char addition). > like they would choose: section1, subdiv2, subset3, > new file name: s1-sd2-ss3-20chars.jpg > > > thanks > Rodney > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 3:42 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ot:submit form to itself > > > i would have them choose to upload a file or not, if so, upload, > then send that information (the image info) to the next > form, that happens to be the laborious one to fill in, makes > it easy on them, and less hassle for you :) > > tony > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce, Rodney S HQISEC/SIGNAL > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 6:35 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ot:submit form to itself > > > ok, maybe I need to thank about redoing this. > > I have a main form/window that contains a large form (many, many > fields), > that without having to reload/refresh this form (major pain to keep all > the > info). > > On this form is a subsection that allows the user to upload a file. > When pressed the button opens a popup window that lets the user enter 20 > chars to add to the file name and creates the file name based on > information > passed from the main form and these 20 chars. > > User submits file for upload and then I want to return the new file name > back to the main form, after the file upload has be successful and give > user > a notice that upload was successful. > also in the process doing all needed checks. > > This would be simple if I didn't have to keep the main form open and > then > take the new file name back to it after the upload. > > > Problems: > If I could do it all from the one popup I can return the new file name > from > there, but so far I can't seem to do this, because <CFFILE> needs a from > field(file) passed to it. > > Once I leave the popup I don't know how to get the file name back to the > main form. > > thanks for any suggestions > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
