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vanillapod · Sep 29, 2003

Can anyone tell me whether its possible to submit a form / save its data to a dbase by just leaving the page? Ideally my page would submit when they click on the link to the next record so long as something in the form had been edited / entered???

Veep · Sep 29, 2003

You're going to need to write some client-side script. Declare a page level Boolean variable that equates to true if any of the controls on your page are populated or changed. In your next-page link, instead of just going to the next page, call a subroutine that either submits the form (with the forms action being the next page) or just navigates to the next page based on the status of the Boolean variable.

Gorkem · Sep 29, 2003

add this to your body tag:

<body onunload="dosomething();" ...>

then write your javascript to submit the information on this page to store it.. (you probably would want to open the page up as a popup and then automatically close it so it becomes as transparent to the end user as possible)

Hope this helped.

Cheers,

G.

GT Interactive

http://www.gt-interactive.net

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IsraelZa · Sep 29, 2003

The javascript to submit is:
window.document.FormName.submit();

IsraelZa · Sep 29, 2003

You can call the javascript to submit from body's unload event.
For information about the unload event see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/events/onunload.asp

vanillapod · Oct 3, 2003

cheers for the responses I'll go give it a go, took me a while to get back onto this!

Ta

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