Stuck using radiobutton control in dialog component

[walhoney]

I am trying to insert a dialog component page between two grids and have a Student_Id field carry through.

The first grid is a read only grid in which I have a field linking to the second grid, which is updateable, add records only, to a desktop table called Students. The link address for the linking field is:
SelectClass.a5w?Selectclass_link_1C=Student_Id={Student_Id}
The second updateable grid has Student_Id defined as a textbox field. When I enter new data and submit the record, all the data including Student_Id are saved correctly into the destination desktop table.

I want to insert a dialog component page between the two grid component pages that allows the user several selections using a radio button. One of the selections will allow the process path described above. The other selections go to other pages. I have defined the choices for the radio button and used the following code in the After Validate section of the component:

    IF Radiobutton = "1" then
         dim filter as c
         filter = "Student_Id=" + quote(Student_Id)
         filter = urlencode(filter)
         Currentform.redirectTarget="SelectClass.a5w?Selectclass_filter="+filter
    else if Radiobutton = "2" then
         Currentform.redirectTarget="MainMenu.a5w"
    endif

This code works and opens the pages correctly. But when entering data into the SelectClass page, it all gets saved to the desktop EXCEPT for Student_Id. The filter seems not to work, but I can't find anything wrong with it. In the dialog component Student_Id is defined as a textbox control; the other control is the radiobutton. Any ideas what might be my problem?

[Pat Bremkamp]

Re: Stuck using radiobutton control in dialog component

You might want to consider a different approach. You say the page without the dialog works just fine, so why not use it without the dialog?

The picture attached shows one approach where you use buttons instead of a component.

I'm confused about your approach, since I don't know at what point the submit for the grid components occurs. You say the dialog is between the two grids, so are you trying to interrupt the processing and redirect it?

If you want to stick with your approach, you might try a small change. On the page, the grid components don't know anything about the dialog and vice versa, so you could filter the page based on a session variable, and have the dialog set the session variable instead of trying to create a filter. Also, give the dialog variable a different name than the name used in the grids so there is no confusion, say "Student_Id2". It doesn't matter where on the page the dialog is located.

Pat

[Pat Bremkamp]

Re: Stuck using radiobutton control in dialog component

Oops, I just reread your post and I realize that you are talking about three different pages. I was thinking you had two grids in a gridlinker and a dialog component all on the same page.

In any event, I still recommend you put your navigation choices on the first page and keep the grid to grid link as you have it.

Pat