Question

pass coldfusion form values to a new popup window

Asked by: veeroy

I have two coldfusion forms the first has a select box that is populated for a data base. I also has text areas that are populated when an item in the selectbox is selected. Last on the first form are checkboxes. The second form is opened into a new window with a button (not a submit button) a button onClick. How do I pass the values of all the different types of input to the new window. Please show code to help me see how it is done I am new to coldfusion and javascript.

thanks

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Asked On: 2004-07-22 at 11:57:43ID21068167
Tags: coldfusion
,; window
,; popup
,; form
,; pass
Topics: ColdFusion Application Server
,; ColdFusion Studio
Participating Experts: 5
Points: 500
Comments: 16

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by: JackfyPosted on 2004-07-22 at 13:38:34ID: 11616529

I'm not quite understand your question.

> The second form is opened into a new window with a button (not a submit button) a button onClick

Where is the button, on the first form?
Is that when you click on the button on the first form, then pass the first forms values into the 2nd form?

by: JackfyPosted on 2004-07-22 at 13:44:31ID: 11616577

1st Form:

<form name="FirstForm" action="SecondForm.cfm" method="post" target="new">
<select name="var1">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
</select>
<textarea name="var2" cols="10" rows="10"></textarea>
<input type="checkbox" name="var3" value="test">
<input type="button" value="submit" onclick="document.FirstForm.submit()">
</form>

SecondForm.cfm

<cfoutput>
var1 = #var1#<br>
var2 = #var2#<br>
var3 = #var3#
</cfoutput>

Note: in some browser, if your checkbox is unchecked, your 2nd page will not get the variable passed. so you should have a <cfparam name="var3" default=""> in place.

by: veeroyPosted on 2004-07-22 at 14:06:00ID: 11616799

Yes, on the first form I have a email feed back button which opens a new window so that the user can fill out the feedback textarea and send it with a button on the second form. I also have a submit button on the first form that after they send their feedback if they choose they can click the submit button and it will update the database tables with all the values that were filled out on the first form. So I need to pass some of the values to the new window as well as be able to submit all the values on the first form to a database.

by: veeroyPosted on 2004-07-22 at 14:23:35ID: 11616964

Here is what my <cfform> looks like for the first form
-----------------------------------------------------------------
function display()
{
      feedbackWin      = window.open('http://lpowebd1.novusservices.com/cma/call_escalation_tracker/call_escalation_ticksheets/escalation_feedback.cfm','feedbackWin',' width=700, height=500')
      //feedbackWin.document.escalation_feedback.employee_racf.value             =       opener.document.call_tracker_form.employee_racf.value;
//feedbackWin.document.escalation_feedback.email_addr.value                   =       opener.document.call_tracker_form.employee_racf.value;
      //feedbackWin.document.escalation_feedback.account_number.value             =       opener.document.call_tracker_form.account_number.value;
      //feedbackWin.document.escalation_feedback.escalation_agent.value            =       opener.document.call_tracker_form.escalation_agent.value;

//feedbackWin.document.close();
}

</script>


<cfif isDefined("#COOKIE.racfid#")>
      <cfset SESSION.racfid = COOKIE.racfid>
</cfif>


<cfform name="call_tracker_form" method="post" action="output.cfm" target="blank">

<table width="499" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="499">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0" align="center">
      <tr valign="top">
      <td colspan="2"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><div align="center"><strong>Call
       Escalation Tracker</strong></div></font></td>
<tr valign="top">
<td width="95%"><table width="94%" border="0" align="left">
<tr>
<td width="50%" nowrap><div align="center"><font color="#333333"><strong><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cad/Escalation
Agent:<cfinput type="text" name="escalation_agent" value="#SESSION.racfid#" maxlength="12" size="12"></cfinput></font></strong></font></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td height="200" valign="left" nowrap> <div align="right"><font color="#333333"><strong></strong></font></div>
                          <font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">  </font>
<table width="100%" height="177" border="0" align="left">
<tr>
<td width="31%" nowrap>
                                    <p align="right"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Account Number:
                                    <input type="text" name="account_number" value="" size="19"></strong></font></p>
                                    <p align="right"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Account Manager: <font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
                                    <select name="employee_list" onChange="setAgent_TL_DM_value()">
                                                <option>Select RACF </option>
                                          <cfoutput query="cma_hierarchy">
                                                <option value="#employee_racf#">#employee_racf#
                                         </cfoutput>
                               </select></strong></font></p>
                                    <p align="right"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Team Leader:
                                    <input type="text" name="tl_racf" value="" size="12"></strong></font></p>
                                    <p align="right"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Department Manager:
                                    <input type="text" name="dm_racf" value="" size="12"></strong></font></p>
</td>
                                    <td width="69%" nowrap>
                                    <table align="left">
                                          <cfoutput query="createcheckboxes">
                                                <tr>
                                                      <td><input type="checkbox" name="result_type" value="#result_type#" onClick="selected_count()">#result_type#</td>
                                                </tr>
                                          </cfoutput>
                                    </table>
                                    </td>
                               </tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
                        <tr valign="top">
<td height="53" valign="middle" nowrap>
                          <table width="98%" border="0" align="center">
                                <tr>
<td width= "50%" nowrap><div align="center"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input type="button" value="Add Feed Back" onClick="display()">
</font></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<tr valign="top">
<td height="41" valign="middle" nowrap>
                          <table width="98%" border="0" align="center">
                                <tr>
<td width= "50%" height="40" nowrap><div align="right"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input type="submit" value="Call Complete" onClick="submit()">
</font></div>
</td>
<td width="50%" nowrap><div align="left"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="Reset" type="Reset" value="Reset Fields">
</font></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
                  </td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</cfform>

------------------------------------------------------------

Here is my second <cfform>

-------------------------------------------------------------
<cfform name="escalation_feedback" method="post" action="output.cfm">
<table align="center" border="0" width="600">
<td height="23">
             <tr>
<td><table border="0" width="525">
<tr>
<td align="right">Agent RACF:</td>
<td><cfinput type="text" size="50" name="employee_racf" value=""></cfinput></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Agent Email:</td>
<td><cfinput type="text" size="50" name="email_addr" value=""></cfinput></td>
</tr>
                        <tr>
<td align="right">Account Number:</td>
<td><cfinput type="text" size="50" name="account_number" value=""></cfinput></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Cad/Escalation Agent:</td>
<td><cfinput type="text" size="50" name="escalation_agent" value="#SESSION.racfid#"></cfinput></td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<td height="27"></td>
<td height="28"></tr>
<tr>
<td>
                  <table border="0" width="500">
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="2">Escalation Feed Back:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><textarea name="feed_back" rows="8" cols="60"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit Feed Back" onClick="submit()"></td>
<td align="right"><input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset fields"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p> </p>
</cfform>

by: hartPosted on 2004-07-23 at 03:32:25ID: 11620213

check this out



<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">

</SCRIPT>

<CFIF isDefined("#COOKIE.racfid#")><CFSET SESSION.racfid = COOKIE.racfid></CFIF>
<FORM name="call_tracker_form" action="output.cfm" method="post">
      <TABLE width="499" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
            <TR>
                  <TD width="499">
                        <TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0" align="center">
                              <TR valign="top">
                                    <TD colspan="2"><FONT color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><DIV align="center"><STRONG>Call Escalation Tracker</STRONG></DIV></FONT>
                                    </TD>
                                    <TR valign="top">
                                          <TD width="95%">
                                                <TABLE width="94%" border="0" align="left">
                                                      <TR>
                                                            <TD width="50%" nowrap><DIV align="center"><FONT color="#333333"><STRONG><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cad/Escalation Agent: <INPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="escalation_agent" VALUE="#SESSION.racfid#" MAXLENGTH="12" SIZE="12"></FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV></TD>
                                                      </TR>
                                                </TABLE>
                                          </TD>
                                    </TR>
                                    <TR valign="top">
                                          <TD height="200" valign="left" nowrap><DIV align="right"><FONT color="#333333"><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></DIV><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">  </FONT>
                                                <TABLE width="100%" height="177" border="0" align="left">
                                                      <TR>
                                                            <TD width="31%" nowrap>
                                                                  <P align="right"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>Account Number:      <INPUT type="text" name="account_number" value="" size="19"></STRONG></FONT></P>
                                                                  <P align="right"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>Account Manager: <FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
                                                                  <SELECT name="employee_list" onChange="setAgent_TL_DM_value()">
                                                                        <OPTION>Select RACF</OPTION>
                                                                        <CFOUTPUT query="cma_hierarchy">
                                                                              <OPTION value="#employee_racf#">#employee_racf#</OPTION>
                                                                        </CFOUTPUT>
                                                                  </SELECT></STRONG></FONT></P>
                                                                  <P align="right"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>Team Leader: <INPUT type="text" name="tl_racf" value="" size="12"></STRONG></FONT></P>
                                                                  <P align="right"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>Department Manager: <INPUT type="text" name="dm_racf" value="" size="12"></STRONG></FONT></P>
                                                            </TD>
                                                            <TD width="69%" nowrap>
                                                                  <TABLE align="left">
                                                                  <CFOUTPUT query="createcheckboxes">
                                                                        <TR>
                                                                              <TD>
                                                                                    <INPUT type="checkbox" name="result_type" value="#result_type#" onClick="selected_count()"> #result_type#
                                                                              </TD>
                                                                        </TR>
                                                                  </CFOUTPUT>
                                                                  </TABLE>
                                                            </TD>
                                                      </TR>
                                                </TABLE>
                                          </TD>
                                    </TR>
                                    <TR valign="top">
                                          <TD height="53" valign="middle" nowrap>
                                                <TABLE width="98%" border="0" align="center">
                                                      <TR>
                                                            <TD width="50%" nowrap><DIV align="center"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><INPUT type="button" value="Add Feed Back" onClick="feedBack()"></FONT></DIV></TD>
                                                      </TR>
                                                </TABLE>
                                          </TD>
                                    </TR>
                                    <TR valign="top">
                                          <TD height="41" valign="middle" nowrap>
                                                <TABLE width="98%" border="0" align="center">
                                                      <TR>
                                                            <TD width="50%" height="40" nowrap><DIV align="right"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><INPUT type="button" value="Call Complete" onClick="submitForm()"></FONT></DIV></TD>
                                                            <TD width="50%" nowrap><DIV align="left"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><INPUT name="Reset" type="Reset" value="Reset Fields"></FONT></DIV></TD>
                                                      </TR>
                                                </TABLE>
                                          </TD>
                                    </TR>
                        </TABLE>
                  </TD>
            </TR>
      </TABLE>
</FORM>


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">

</SCRIPT>

<FORM name="escalation_feedback" method="post" action="output.cfm" ONSUBMIT="return AssignValues()">
      <TABLE align="center" border="0" width="600">
            <TR>
                  <TD>
                        <TABLE border="0" width="525">
                              <TR>
                                    <TD align="right"> Agent RACF: </TD>
                                    <TD><INPUT type="text" size="50" name="employee_racf" value=""></TD>
                              </TR>
                              <TR>
                                    <TD align="right"> Agent Email: </TD>
                                    <TD><INPUT type="text" size="50" name="email_addr" value=""></TD>
                              </TR>
                              <TR>
                                    <TD align="right"> Account Number: </TD>
                                    <TD><INPUT type="text" size="50" name="account_number" value=""></TD>
                              </TR>
                              <TR>
                                    <TD align="right"> Cad/Escalation Agent: </TD>
                                    <TD><CFOUTPUT><INPUT type="text" size="50" name="escalation_agent" value="#SESSION.racfid#"></CFOUTPUT></TD>
                              </TR>
                        </TABLE>
                  </TD>
            </TR>
      </TABLE>
      <TABLE border="0" width="500">
            <TR>
                  <TD valign="top" colspan="2"> Escalation Feed Back: </TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
                  <TD colspan="2"><TEXTAREA name="feed_back" rows="8" cols="60"></TEXTAREA></TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
                  <TD colspan="2"> </TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
                  <TD><INPUT type="submit" name="submitbtn" value="Submit Feed Back"></TD>
                  <TD align="right"><INPUT type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset fields"></TD>
            </TR>
      </TABLE>
</FORM>

Regards
Hart

by: mrichmonPosted on 2004-07-23 at 08:48:29ID: 11622615

You can also look at passing the results via URL to the second form since you are not using submit.

Then have the values from the 1st form written into hidden fields in the second form so that when the second form submits you get all of the values...

by: veeroyPosted on 2004-07-23 at 09:12:26ID: 11622846

I understand that I can also use the URL but how do I display the values in the new popup window so that the user can see what values were passed to that window. I just don't understand how, I am a newbe to coldfusion and I am learning coldfusion along with Javascript.

by: mrichmonPosted on 2004-07-23 at 09:51:50ID: 11623232

you can print them to the screen, you can display them in inputs - it is really up to you

by: veeroyPosted on 2004-07-23 at 10:25:12ID: 11623569

OK, but could anyone show me (with code) how to pass it on the URL and explain how it works so that I can understand how it is done and not feel lost.

by: hartPosted on 2004-07-23 at 10:32:20ID: 11623644

hey buddy i already gave u the solution...

i am submitting the first form to the popupwindow form...

so what ever values are there in the parent form will be accessed in the popup form...

thats is

just try this in the pop up window...

<cfoutput>#form.account_number#</cfoutput>

in the pop up window this will show the value from the first form...
thats all...

now assign this value to the input type text

<TR>
<TD align="right"> Agent RACF: </TD>
<TD><INPUT type="text" size="50" name="employee_racf" value="<cfoutput>#form.employee_racf#</cfoutput>"></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD align="right"> Agent Email: </TD>
<TD><INPUT type="text" size="50" name="email_addr" value=""></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD align="right"> Account Number: </TD>
<TD><INPUT type="text" size="50" name="account_number" value="<cfoutput>#form.account_number#</cfoutput>"></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD align="right"> Cad/Escalation Agent: </TD>
<TD><CFOUTPUT><INPUT type="text" size="50" name="escalation_agent" value="#SESSION.racfid#"></CFOUTPUT></TD>
</TR>

Regards
Hart

by: veeroyPosted on 2004-07-23 at 10:48:14ID: 11623785

Hart, Your solution submits the form and I don't want to submit the form at this time I just want to pass the form values to the popup window have the user feel out the feed back and submit that close the popup window then on the first form submit the values to a database. besides I like your solution, but you don't need to be rude about it. I'm just trying to understand all of this coldfusion and exploring all the options to see what will work best so far yours is what i am working with to acomplish what I am trying to do. I am a newbe not an expert!

by: mrichmonPosted on 2004-07-23 at 11:00:54ID: 11623892

You would have a link that opens the second window using an onclick like this :

onclick="window.open(secondpage.cfm?var1=value&var2=value&var3=value);"

Then in the seond page you could do

#URL.var1# to display it to the screen and also
<input type="hidden" name="var1" value="#URL.var1#"> to have it as a hidden input at the same time.

Then when the second page form is submitted those values will be submitted as well.

by: substandPosted on 2004-07-24 at 16:38:03ID: 11630159

say your first form is like:

<form name="firstform" id="firstform" action="blah" method="post">
<input type="text" name="inputone" value="whatever">

<input type=button onclick="window.open(...);">
</form>

then in the 2nd page you can do:
<script>

this.formtwo.inputone.value=window.opener.firstform.inputone.value;

</script>

----------------------

i think he's looking for a solution like that (passing the variables via javascript and not thru submitting the form, since he specifically said he didnt want to submit it)... i dont have the time to actually check the syntax, so if one of you other experts wants to chime in on this, please do.

by: jyokumPosted on 2004-07-25 at 08:44:55ID: 11632248

expanding on what substand said...

On your main page you would have code similar to

<script>
function popup(){
var winProps = "height=300,width=300";
window.open('popup.cfm', 'child', winProps);
}
</script>
<form name="formNameHere" action="whatever.cfm" method="post">
field1 <input type="text" name="field1"><br />
field2 <input type="text" name="field2"><br />
field3 <input type="text" name="field3"><br />
<form>
<a href="javascript:popup();">click me</a>

Then, your popup window would look something like

<form name="frmPopup" action="whatever.cfm" method="post">
field 1 <input type="text" name="field1"><br />
field 2 <input type="text" name="field2"><br />
field 3 <input type="text" name="field3"><br />
</form>
<script>
frmPopup.field1.value = window.opener.formNameHere.field1.value;
frmPopup.field2.value = window.opener.formNameHere.field2.value;
frmPopup.field3.value = window.opener.formNameHere.field3.value;
</script>

by: JackfyPosted on 2004-07-26 at 08:22:39ID: 11638261

veeroy, I'm still confused what exactly you want. Here is the code based on my assumption. (Do you want to pass the data back from the 2nd form to 1st form as well?)

1st Form:
<script language="JavaScript">
function mySubmit() {
      document.FirstForm.target = "_self"
      document.FirstForm.action = "Write2DB.cfm"
      document.FirstForm.submit()
}

function myFeedback() {
      document.FirstForm.target = "feedback"
      document.FirstForm.action = "EmailFeedback.cfm"
      document.FirstForm.submit()
}
</script>

<form name="FirstForm" method="post">
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by: veeroyPosted on 2004-07-26 at 16:30:50ID: 11642452

Thanks Jackfy and Jyokum what you posted pointed me in the correct direction and the solution to my problem. Thanks again you both were a big help in making me understand coldfusion.

20120131-EE-VQP-002

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