I may have been in the wrong forum, so I copied my issue here. No arrogance intended. Please forgive me for not knowing which forum to use.
I have a multi-page form, which is basic. The form's first page is to post a new person's fist and last name. The second page is for the person's current address. Of course, there's more objects/database fields than this, but I need page 1 to go to page 2 smoothly, and without much pause. Page 2 is the exact same person as page 1. The ID for the person is created on page 1, somehow.
How do I get the 2nd page form to know it's the same person on page 1? Do I use call_number =form.ID or ID=ID or what? Does the form on each page have be the same name? Does the ACTION have to be the name of the next page in the form (page2), or the name of the page which submits the data?
PAGE 1 "The Name"
<CFQUERY DATASOURCE="people" NAME="nw">
SELECT *
FROM people_table;
</CFQUERY>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Add an Entry.</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD>
<FORM
ACTION="p_in.cfm"
METHOD="post"
NAME="formNewPersonPage1">
<INPUT
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="peopleID">
<INPUT
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="entry_date_time"
VALUE="now()">
Your First Name:
<INPUT
TYPE="text"
NAME="people_nm_f"
SIZE="30"
id="First name">
<P>
Your Last Name:
<INPUT
TYPE="text"
NAME="gb_entry_nm_l"
SIZE="30"
id="Last name">
<BR>
<P>
Checkbox if Male:
<INPUT
TYPE="checkbox"
NAME="people_nm_male_x">
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
____________________________________________________
PAGE 2 "The Current Address"
<CFQUERY DATASOURCE="people" NAME="nw">
SELECT *
FROM people_table
WHERE formNewPersonPage1.peopleID=ID;
</CFQUERY>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Add an Entry Page 2</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD>
<FORM
ACTION="p_in.cfm"
METHOD="post"
NAME="formNewPersonPage2">
Your Street #:
<INPUT
TYPE="text"
NAME="peopleStreetNbr"
SIZE="30">
Your City:
<INPUT
TYPE="text"
NAME="peopleCity"
SIZE="30">
<BR>
Your State:
<P>
<INPUT
TYPE="text"
NAME="peopleState"
SIZE="30">
<P>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>