Thank you very much Anthony that's a great help. Do you know where in the
manual/other documentation this kind of thing is? I couldn't find it
anywhere. All I could find on the net was jQuery and ajax stuff
On Thursday, 26 July 2012 23:11:16 UTC+1, Anthony wrote:
>
> When you build the links, do something like:
>
> {{for suggestion in suggestions:}}
> {{=LI(A(suggestion, _href=URL('default', 'resultsDisplay', vars=dict(
> userQuery=suggestion))))}}
> {{pass}}
>
> That will give you URLs like
> /yourapp/default/resultsDisplay?userQuery=suggestion. The suggestion will
> then be accessible as request.vars.userQuery in the resultsDisplay function.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:52:34 PM UTC-4, adohertyd wrote:
>>
>> How do I assign the query value to the request.vars? I'm ok with checking
>> for it in the function, but how do I pass the request.vars to the function
>> first??
>>
>> On Thursday, 26 July 2012 22:31:54 UTC+1, Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>> Construct the links so they contain a query string with the new
>>> userQuery. In the resultsDisplay function, check for a userQuery in
>>> request.vars, and if present, process that value instead of processing
>>> session.userQuery.
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>> On Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:21:22 PM UTC-4, adohertyd wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I posted a related question earlier but given the response I don't
>>>> think my question was clear. My index page contains a form and the index()
>>>> function assigns the user input in this form to a variable:
>>>> session.userQuery
>>>>
>>>> session.userquery is then processed in resultsDisplay() and sent to a
>>>> number of API's. The data returned from these API's is processed and
>>>> displayed on resultsDisplay.html. On results.html the user is given
>>>> suggestions for an alternative term. This is where my query lies.
>>>>
>>>> I want the generated suggestions to be clickable links that will
>>>> restart the resultsDisplay() function with the clicked term as the new
>>>> session.userQuery value. The results generated will then be relative to
>>>> the
>>>> new term. I hope this makes sense. As I've said, it's like when a user
>>>> misspells a word in Google and they ask "Did you mean...." and when you
>>>> click the suggested term, the suggested term replaces the user's original
>>>> input.
>>>>
>>>> *def index():*
>>>>
>>>> #assigns user input to session.userQuery
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *def resultsDisplay():*
>>>>
>>>> #processes session.userQuery
>>>> #sends processed string to number of API's
>>>> #processes API returns
>>>> #returns data
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *resultsDisplay.html: *
>>>>
>>>> Results:
>>>> <ul>
>>>> <li> results </li>
>>>> </ul>
>>>>
>>>> Suggestions:
>>>> <ul>
>>>> <li><a href="resultsDisplay.html" onclick=session.userData=
>>>> "suggestion"> suggestions</a> </li>
>>>> </ul>
>>>>
>>>>
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