Hey Blair, Using the objectid totally worked, thanks.
Althought I just finishing having a talk with my manager and he said change the system over to the Farcry external links system, particular when I told him as you said that it can track hits etc. The main reason that we have intially decided to use our external links was because our search form uses a category select and also as a subcategory select and as I am new to farcry I was not sure how to setup the comparision when someone uses the select statement. In other words say a user selects a category and then a subcategory, how do I match that up to a farcry category/subcategory (keyword) so that if they match only display links in those categories, subcategories etc. I suppose it would be by using the category object? Regards Blair McKenzie wrote: > Are you using friendly urls? For basic FarCry, as long as the link is in the > form /index.cfm?objectid=xxxx where xxxx is the objectid of the included > page, extra parameters in the query string shouldn't make any difference. > > On the note of using FarCry links, the advantage of that is that since hits > are logged for every type in the system (not just html pages) you would have > some stats automatically (although you might want to develop your own > reports). > > Blair > > On 9/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > The first page displays a search form to do a search for links based on > > user input as well as a select form element so that users can search on > > pre-defined categories. > > > > Based on their search a list of external links is displayed which they > > can then click on to go to that site. The link has a parameter added > > which is the id of the link so we can keep stats on the number of > > clicks that the link has received, this is done when the user clicks > > the link which opens a page that updates the link stats and then > > re-directs them to the external url. > > > > (NOTE: for a number of different reasons, we have decided to use > > our own external links system as an included rather than use the farcry > > link system, although we will consider changing from our system to the > > farcry system in the future) > > > > > > Blair McKenzie wrote: > > > Can you give us an example of what you want to do? > > > > > > Blair > > > > > > On 9/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have set up a include where the main file uses a cfswitch statement. > > > > This works fine for a form elements, but it does not work that well > > > > when you are using parameterised drill down links as we get a 404 > > > > error, how do we get around this? > > > > > > > > Thanks David > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------=_Part_8929_3702335.1157680072707 > > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > X-Google-AttachSize: 771 > > > > > > Can you give us an example of what you want to > > do?<br><br>Blair<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/8/06, <b > > class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></b> < > > > <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>> > > wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid > > rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> > > > Hi,<br><br>I have set up a include where the main file uses a cfswitch > > statement.<br>This works fine for a form elements, but it does not work that > > well<br>when you are using parameterised drill down links as we get a 404 > > > <br>error, how do we get around this?<br><br>Thanks > > David<br><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br> > > > > > > ------=_Part_8929_3702335.1157680072707-- > > > > > > > > > > > ------=_Part_9325_17842366.1157684049718 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > X-Google-AttachSize: 3926 > > Are you using friendly urls? For basic FarCry, as long as the link is in the > form /index.cfm?objectid=xxxx where xxxx is the objectid of the included > page, extra parameters in the query string shouldn't make any difference. > <br><br>On the note of using FarCry links, the advantage of that is that > since hits are logged for every type in the system (not just html pages) you > would have some stats automatically (although you might want to develop your > own reports). > <br><br>Blair<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/8/06, <b > class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL > PROTECTED]</a></b> <<a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED] > </a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px > solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: > 1ex;"><br>The first page displays a search form to do a search for links > based on > <br>user input as well as a select form element so that users can search > on<br>pre-defined categories.<br><br>Based on their search a list of external > links is displayed which they<br>can then click on to go to that site. The > link has a parameter added > <br>which is the id of the link so we can keep stats on the number > of<br>clicks that the link has received, this is done when the user > clicks<br>the link which opens a page that updates the link stats and > then<br>re-directs them to the external url. > <br><br> (NOTE: for a number of different reasons, we > have decided to use<br>our own external links system as an included rather > than use the farcry<br>link system, although we will consider changing from > our system to the > <br>farcry system in the future)<br><br><br>Blair McKenzie wrote:<br>> Can > you give us an example of what you want to do?<br>><br>> > Blair<br>><br>> On 9/8/06, <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > </a> <<a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>> > wrote:<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Hi,<br>> ><br>> > I > have set up a include where the main file uses a cfswitch statement. > <br>> > This works fine for a form elements, but it does not work that > well<br>> > when you are using parameterised drill down links as we get > a 404<br>> > error, how do we get around this?<br>> ><br> > > > Thanks David<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ><br>> > ><br>><br>> ------=_Part_8929_3702335.1157680072707<br>> > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1<br>> X-Google-AttachSize: > 771<br> > ><br>> Can you give us an example of what you want to > do?<br><br>Blair<br><br><div><span > class="gmail_quote">On 9/8/06, <b > class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto: > <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>"><a > href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></a></b> > &lt;<br>> <a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>"><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL > PROTECTED]</a></a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote > class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, > 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt > 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>> > Hi,<br><br>I have set up a include where the main file uses a > cfswitch statement.<br>This works fine for a form elements, but it does > not work that well<br>when you are using parameterised drill down links > as we get a 404 > <br>> <br>error, how do we get around > this?<br><br>Thanks > David<br><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br>><br>> > ------=_Part_8929_3702335.1157680072707-- > <br><br><br> > ------=_Part_9325_17842366.1157684049718-- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. 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