Unfortunately html is a pretty primitive user interface.If the controls all have the same name, the values will come through as one comma seperated list. If they do not, you can manage the possible multiple choices, but then have to deal with each box individually.
You end up having to do -----Original Message----- From: Tom Kochanowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 May 2002 08:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using the getParameterValues Yes, What I am doing is setting up a web enabled data warehouse to study pancreatic cancer patients. The mission is to find characteristics that are common in these patients and to see if their is a pattern (e.g. sex, race, demographics, etc.) that shows a higher probability of getting pancreatic cancer. Each choice box has an entity, for example race, which has attributes or characteristics, for example Asian, black, white etc. >From a functional perspective, you could say I am counting based on a query and determining an average...or the probability of having pancreatic cancer if you have certain attributes or your life style follows certain characteristic. I already have a working model which gets a single value from each choice box, but want the user to be able to combine selections that are in the same choice box, for example, if their is a choice box that has life style and the attributes may contain "drink alcohol", "smoke", "program in java" (ha ha), I want to be able to have the user do a query of the database that returns a count/probability. By the way the count/probability part is already figured out, it's just getting the numerous different parameters to form an sql query without having to write a ton of code. Sincerely, Tom Kochanowicz -----Original Message----- From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bhushan_Bhangale Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 1:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using the getParameterValues It depends what kind of query you want to write and the table structure. Could you elaborate more abt the functionality? -----Original Message----- From: Tom Kochanowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using the getParameterValues I am working with multiple choice boxes on an html page. I want the user to be able to do multiple choices, per choice box so the number of parameters will vary depending on what the user selects from each of 6 different choice boxs. - From these selections I want to use the values I get from each getParameterValues() to build a sql query. The problem is their are 6 choice boxes with up to 10 different values. - Is their a practical way to do this without having to build a hugh number of different combinations of query strings??? Sincerely, Tom Kochanowicz ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html This e-mail is confidential and intended only for the addressee(s) shown. If you are not an intended recipient, please be advised that any use, dissemination, forwarding or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure and the AXA Group does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Please note that incoming and outgoing electronic mail messages may be monitored. Should you receive this transmission in error, notify the sender immediately. Thank you ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
