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Re-sort a table by user-selected variable
I'm using an Access 2000 db as the data source for a table on a web page that's generated with ASP.
The table looks like:
Project Name Coordinator Product
Project X Kitty Rule
Project Me Bear Rule
Nuke 'Em Kitty Lawsuit
When the page appears the first time, the projects are sorted by project name.
I'd like to be able to allow the user to click on the column heading (which is also the field name) to re-sort the output by that field.
I've been trying to get this to work by setting the column names up as:
<a href=showprojects.asp?pick
thinking that a click on that link should set the variable pickorder equal to the desired field name.
The asp code then says:
pickorder=request("pickord
strsql="SELECT * from tblProjects ORDER BY '" & pickorder & "'"
When I click on a link, the URL indicates "it" understands that pickorder is equal to Coordinator but it doesn't re-sort the data.
What am I doing wrong?
If you need more code, just ask. I'm a newbie so I don't know when enough is too much and I thought I'd spared you digging through a bunch of irrelevant stuff.
Thanks in advance.
Kitty
The table looks like:
Project Name Coordinator Product
Project X Kitty Rule
Project Me Bear Rule
Nuke 'Em Kitty Lawsuit
When the page appears the first time, the projects are sorted by project name.
I'd like to be able to allow the user to click on the column heading (which is also the field name) to re-sort the output by that field.
I've been trying to get this to work by setting the column names up as:
<a href=showprojects.asp?pick
thinking that a click on that link should set the variable pickorder equal to the desired field name.
The asp code then says:
pickorder=request("pickord
strsql="SELECT * from tblProjects ORDER BY '" & pickorder & "'"
When I click on a link, the URL indicates "it" understands that pickorder is equal to Coordinator but it doesn't re-sort the data.
What am I doing wrong?
If you need more code, just ask. I'm a newbie so I don't know when enough is too much and I thought I'd spared you digging through a bunch of irrelevant stuff.
Thanks in advance.
Kitty
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I get a line at the top of the page that says:
SELECT * from tblProjects ORDER BY 'ProjectName'
Should I not have put the single quotes in there?
SELECT * from tblProjects ORDER BY 'ProjectName'
Should I not have put the single quotes in there?
ASKER
Fritz, you are brilliant!
I got rid of the single quotes and it now works.
Thanks a whole bunch. That was driving me crazy.
Cheers!
Kitty
I got rid of the single quotes and it now works.
Thanks a whole bunch. That was driving me crazy.
Cheers!
Kitty
Glad to have helped.
Whenever things don't work the way that you expect, use a response.write followed by a response.end to figure out what is happening.
Good luck with your project,
FtB
Whenever things don't work the way that you expect, use a response.write followed by a response.end to figure out what is happening.
Good luck with your project,
FtB
As an aside, you need the delimiters for where something ='something' when that something is text or date. You also need it for insert clauses for text and date values, but not for order by clauses.
FtB
FtB
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Kitty