A couple of things spring to my mind that don't involve ajax. 1. Accept the form and then prompt for the upload. It adds a separate page but it reduces your duplication. 2. Accept the uploaded document. Yep, save it to your server and if the data turns out to be a duplicate entry, action="DELETE" 3. Use the CFID or jsessionid as the name of the uploaded file and allow files to be overwritten. nameconflict="OVERWRITE" mf mark fennell athens regional medical center athens, ga
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Howard Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:52 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] looking for opinions on duplicate form submissions I'm working on an application where a form is submitted along with various attachments (doc, pdf, xls, etc). Apparently users are submitting the same request several times and I've been asked to address this issue. At first thought, it seemed quick and simple to me, but as I've started working on it I can't decide exactly how to handle the attachments in associated with the form in the most efficient way. That brings me here. I was looking for suggestions on how to handle the attachments while I run validation on the db to see if the input from the form already exists in the db. It seems like something that would be perfect for AJAX to handle, but my AJAX skills are virtually nonexistent. So, without using AJAX (or if you can break it down using AJAX for a novice) how would you handle the situation? The main issue I'm having, is that if I do the validation after the form submission, CF is assigning a temp directory to my attachment file. So what is submitted as this: "C:\Documents and Settings\JHoward\Desktop\PO Request mods.doc" ends up as this after submission and validation: "C:\ColdFusion8\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\temp\wwwroot-tmp\n eotmp13963.tmp " and then when I pass it to the CFFILE, it tells me the file doesn't exist. I'm really just looking at the different ways other people would handle this situation to try and decide so any input would be great. Thanks in advance. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software <http://www.figleaf.com> To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
