Since the question is about best practices, would there be any reason not to
set the url variable to a session variable instead?
And if the goal is to reduce templates, I can see this whole process
happening on a single template.
Very roughly:
If url.variable exists, set its value to the session.variable
run appropriate queries based on that session variable
ElseIf no url.variable but session.variable already exists
run appropriate queries based on that session variable
Else
display a selection of reports as links that pass url.variable
The advantage of this would be to let the user skip off to other pages then
come back and still see the report without having to explicitly select it
again.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Ousterhout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:53 PM
Subject: RE: Best Practices
> If the user always has to click on a button to move to the next step, you
may
> wish to place the reports needed in a hidden form variable rather then in
a
> URL variable. You may find that this increases the clarity of the code,
> especially when someone has to come back to the page at a later date.
>
> Andy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mickael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 4:45 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Best Practices
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am in the middle of reworking an app and trying to eliminate many of
the
> templates that were created by me (in my cut paste, make a new template
days
> instead of making smarter templates)
>
> What is have in essence are 6 reports that are practically the same the
> differences are they run the same queries on different tables, and update
them
> as well.
>
> Each page is a report is a self posting page that has reports that need
to
> be checked off by the user as completed.
>
> So now this is what I am trying to do. When the user clicks on the
report I
> have appended ?Reportname=myreport to the link.
>
> Now I have a case statement that uses #url.reportname# that will set all
my
> variables for that page. Until now it is fine. The only problem that I
am
> running into is when I try posting the page to itself to the the update
(set
> the completed from 0 to 1) of course my reportname variable is non
existant.
> What would be the most best way to do set up this? When I try to post the
> same page of course my URL.ReportName does not exist so my switch
statement
> does not work.
>
> Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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