heh Glad I could help. :)

Trust me, I've been where you are now. Even with something as easy as
ColdFusion sometimes the learning curve can be frustrating.



> You are right.  cfinclude can be used in the processing
> page to automatically redirect to the department homepage,
> instead of having the user "click here to login".

> A side note - It sure seems that the problem gets figured
> out right away after I ask for help.

> it's as if I was using 5 steps to accomplish 1!

> Thanks again,

> Micky



>>From: "S.Isaac Dealey"
>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: Login form directs the user to their
>>appropriate department  homepage.
>>Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:59:32 -0600
>>
>>I'm confused... If you can use in the onrequestend.cfm
>>template to push the user on to the desired target page,
>>why can't you
>>use further up in the action page? I would think you
>>would just replace the link that says "login successful,
>>please click
>>here to go to your department's homepage" with a
>>cflocation tag that
>>points to the same page as the link. What am I missing?
>>
>>As an example, my default login module (an onTap framework
>>project)
>>traps users who aren't logged in in the
>>application/htmlhead stage of
>>a request, sets a cookie pointing to the requested page,
>>then forwards
>>them to the login page. If the cookie is set when they log
>>in, it
>>forwards them to the page they requested, otherwise it
>>forwards them
>>on to the default login page. It wouldn't be difficult to
>>add in a
>>small directive that allows a user to select where they'd
>>like to go
>>when they log in from a drop down -- and the redirection
>>would still
>>occur in the body of the login request where it does now.
>>
>>
>>s. isaac dealey   214.823.9345
>>
>>new epoch : isn't it time for a change?
>>
>>add features without fixtures with
>>the onTap open source framework
>>http://www.turnkey.to/ontap
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I have a login form with a username/password field and
>> > a
>> > department drop-down menu.
>>
>> > Goal - After they click login, they are directed the
>> > department home page that they chose in the ddDeptName
>> > drop-down list (ex:  /dept/accounting/index.cfm)
>>
>> > My form action="/dept/#FORM.ddDeptName#/index.cfm" -
>> > where
>> > ddDeptName is the name of the dept drop-down menu.
>>
>> > I know that I can accomplish this by using a processing
>> > page before sending the user to their department
>> > homepage.
>> >           This page receives the form variables, check
>> >           them to the database and states "login
>> >           successful, please click here to go to your
>> >           department's homepage".
>>
>> > Question:
>> > How would I do this without a processing page?
>>
>> > One possible solution?:
>> > Use a dummy page on action= (action="dummy.cfm")
>> > Intercept the process in the OnRequestEnd.cfm file
>> > Put the username/password verification code into
>> > OnRequestEnd.cfm and upon successful account
>> > validation,
>> > redirect the user to their department's home page using
>> >
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Micky
>>
>>
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