Question

Creating a hyper link

Asked by: groone

I know nothing about asp...well...thats a lie.  I know enough to trace and find what I am looking for and to be dangerous.  I am given this asp page that has this line:

<!--webbot bot="DatabaseResultColumn" s-columnnames="EMPLASTNAME,EMPFIRSTNAME,EMPTITLE,EMPLOCTION,EMPDEPT,EMPPHONENBR,PAGERNUMBER,FAXNUMBER,FAXNUMBER1,ALPHANUMBERIC,BUSSINESSCELL,RADIONUMBER" s-column="PAGERNUMBER" b-tableformat="TRUE" b-hashtml="FALSE" b-makelink="FALSE" clientside b-MenuFormat preview="&lt;font size=&quot;-1&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&lt;/font&gt;PAGERNUMBER&lt;font size=&quot;-1&quot;&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/font&gt;" startspan --><%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER")%><!--webbot bot="DatabaseResultColumn" endspan -->

Basically it is a cell in a grid/table and displays a 10 digit number which is a pager number.  This is the statement that creates the 10 digit number
<%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER")%>

I was wondering how I turn that into a link.  I tried doing this
<a href="http://www.mysite.com/script.htm?number=<%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER")%>" target="_blank"><%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER")%></a> but she no work.  See the link should have looked like this  
<a href="http://www.mysite.com/script.htm?number=1234567890" target="_blank">1234567890</a>

I'll do the best I can to answer your questions.

Thanks!

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2004-08-18 at 06:59:41ID21098125
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Answers

 

by: fritz_the_blankPosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:09:25ID: 11830599

What do you end up getting? Your syntax looks correct...

FtB

 

by: groonePosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:19:14ID: 11830711

Thats what I thought, but the appearance of the link looks like this

1234567890 ">

and I click the number and it is blank

 

by: fritz_the_blankPosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:21:11ID: 11830732

If you run the page and view the source, what do you see, just this:

1234567890 ">

or is there some other text? If you have a link for this page, that would be even better.

FtB

 

by: groonePosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:26:41ID: 11830792

looks like this

http://www.mysite.com/script.htm?number=<%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,

 

by: groonePosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:27:11ID: 11830800

it's a secure intranet

 

by: groonePosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:28:05ID: 11830810

oh, and it doesn't show the number.  I was testing something.  It only shows this

">

 

by: fritz_the_blankPosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:28:09ID: 11830811

Okay, that is great! Let me look at this for a minute...

FtB

 

by: fritz_the_blankPosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:30:32ID: 11830840

Let's compare what you wrote and what you got:

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/script.htm?number=<%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER")%>" target="_blank"><%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER")%>

http://www.mysite.com/script.htm?number=<%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,

It looks to me that

=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER")

is not being evaluated.

 

by: fritz_the_blankPosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:31:48ID: 11830852

So, are you sure that you are putting this in the right place? I see that you are using FrontPage (what a nightmare) and you have to be very careful how you play with that code.

 

by: groonePosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:43:19ID: 11830986

Yes, is in the right place.  Can I do it like this?  =FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,'PAGERNUMBER') since I think it is the double quote giving me the hard time.

 

by: fritz_the_blankPosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:47:22ID: 11831052

I don't believe that it is the double quotes as you have your call within the <% %> delimiters. Let's build this up one step at a time. What do you get if you do this on its own?

<%Response.Write(FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER"))%>

Once we get this working, we can move on to getting it in your link.

FtB

 

by: groonePosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:51:50ID: 11831107

I get the 10 digit pager number

 

by: groonePosted on 2004-08-18 at 07:52:45ID: 11831116

this works as it is suppose to.  <%Response.Write(FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER"))%>

 

by: fritz_the_blankPosted on 2004-08-18 at 08:04:40ID: 11831255

Okay, next step:

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/script.asp?number=<%Response.Write(FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER"))%>"><%Response.Write(FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER"))%></a>

FtB

 

by: groonePosted on 2004-08-18 at 09:08:18ID: 11832103

this works, but when I add the target="_blank" the new window that pops up is a white page.  It appears the address doesn't get to the address bar after it si clicked.

 

by: fritz_the_blankPosted on 2004-08-18 at 09:23:02ID: 11832295

I noticed something strange. In your original, you had this:

http://www.mysite.com/script.htm?number=

are you calling an .htm page or a .asp page? I don't think the former will work if you are trying to execute a script.

FtB

 

by: groonePosted on 2004-08-18 at 09:28:29ID: 11832371

it is an htm page

The original
<a href="http://www.mysite.com/script.htm?number=<%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER")%>" target="_blank"><%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER")%></a>  
Does not work, it opens another browser window but only displays a plain white page.  No error message, and it appears the link had not been passed to it.

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/script.htm?number=<%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER")%>"><%=FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER")%></a>
Does work, goes to the script.htm page, and the field in the form is filled in, but I need target="_blank" to work with the link.

 

by: fritz_the_blankPosted on 2004-08-18 at 10:06:43ID: 11832963

Okay, so try this:

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/script.htm?number=<%Response.Write(FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER"))%>" target="_blank"><%Response.Write(FP_FieldVal(fp_rs,"PAGERNUMBER"))%></a>

The first question I have is does this link appear correctly on the page, and if you click on it, does it launch the new window?

FtB

 

by: groonePosted on 2004-08-18 at 10:55:38ID: 11833723

The Response.Write was the ticket.  Working like a charm now.  Thanks

 

by: fritz_the_blankPosted on 2004-08-18 at 10:57:22ID: 11833753

Glad to have helped. I am surprised, however. The use of the = should work in place of the response.write....

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