Passing an ASP Value to javascript for Conditional Functions

[hodgesp]

I have an ASP form that end-users will be useing to update a SQL 2000 database. It is an upgrade to an MS-Access dtabase frontednd that I built using VBA.

The problem I have is that I need to get users to fill out specific data elements based on values within other data elements. For example if an end-user chooses a 'CAR' action then I need a pop-up window to appear with additional fields that required entry. If the user chooses 'QA Audit' I do not need the pop-up window to appear.

In other words I need to get similar functionality that I had with an onUpdate event where If a field equals a certain value another fileds visiblity is set to True else it was False.

I already have the javascript for the pop-up window included and I call it from the onChange attribute of the <Select> tag. I just need to figure out how to conditionalize the pop-up box based on the value chosen? and How do I pass the value into the function?

Here is the Code for the Script and the Select Opject.

 <script language="JavaScript">
   Function goNewWin() {
	var NewWinHeight=200;
	var NewWinWidth=500;
	
	var NewWinPutX=20;
	var NewWinPutY=20;
 
 TheNewWin TheNewWin =window.open("Attribute.htm",'TheNewpop','fullscreen=no,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no'

 TheNewWin.resizeTo(NewWinHeight,NewWinWidth);
 TheNewWin.moveTo(NewWinPutX,NewWinPutY);
}
</script>

<!-----ASP Code-->
<TABLE cellspacing="1" width="100%" style="BORDER-RIGHT: blue 4px groove; BORDER-TOP: blue 2px groove; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px groove; COLOR: blue; BORDER-BOTTOM: blue 4px groove; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cccccc" ID="Table9">
 <tr>
 <td width="35%">
	<%	'FlagType
	   FlagType=Request.Form("FlagType")
		If Err.number <> 0 Then
                  Response.Write "<br>ASP Err.Number: "& Err.Number &"<br>"
		Else						           SQLStr="SELECT  * FROM dbo.tblComFlag order by FlagType"
		   Set RS1 = dbConn.Execute(SQLStr)	

Response.Write "Commitment Type: "&"<SELECT NAME=""FlagType"" onChange=""goNewWin(FlagType)"" Size=1>"
		Response.Write "<option></option>"
		WHILE NOT RS1.EOF
		 RESPONSE.Write"<option value='"&RS1("FlagType")&"'>" & RS1("FlagType")
		RS1.MoveNext	      WEND                        						Response.Write "</SELECT>" 	
	End if						
	%>
    </td>
  </tr>
</TABLE>

 

[kaht]

Sounds like it'd be easiest to just code 2 different popup windows. These are the changes I'd make:

Response.Write "Commitment Type: "&"<SELECT NAME=""FlagType"" onChange=""goNewWin([b]this.options(this.selectedIndex).value[/b])"" Size=1>"

[b]f[/b]unction goNewWin([b]selection[/b]) {
  var NewWinHeight=200;
  var NewWinWidth=500;

  var NewWinPutX=20;
  var NewWinPutY=20;
  
  [b]myURL = (selection == "something") ? "URLifTrue.html" : "URLifFalse.html";[/b]
  //"something" would obviously be one of the values from the pulldown menu
  TheNewWin TheNewWin =window.open([b]myURL[/b],'TheNewpop','fullscreen=no,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no'

  TheNewWin.resizeTo(NewWinHeight,NewWinWidth);
  TheNewWin.moveTo(NewWinPutX,NewWinPutY);
}

-kaht