If, then redirect page in dialog

[EricN]

I'm trying to achieve a simple page redirect in my NewUser dialog.

This is what I have in my Aftervalidate event.
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a5ws_get_user_values(CurrentForm,request)
request.variables.ulink=userid

If CurrentForm.Controls.groups.CheckBox.choices = "Employers"
CurrentForm.RedirectTarget = "Employer_Register.a5w"
Else
CurrentForm.RedirectTarget = "JS.a5w"
End if
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The group checkbox choices are Employers or Job Seekers

Goal is a new user chooses Employers, user is directed to Employer_Register.a5w. If user chooses Job Seekers, user is directed to the JS.a5w page. Currently the If statement is commented out in my project.

The request.variables.ulink=userid works fine.

If this is already posted elsewhere, I apologize. I searched but could not find it and have been working on this issue for 4 hours.

[Steve Wood]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

Change your control to a RadioButton. The checkbox will allow BOTH or NONE to be selected, a Radio only allow one.

Then, this syntax will work:

if currentform.controls.yourRadioButton0 = "employers"
currentform.redirecttarget = "emppage"
else
currentform.redirecttarget = "jobpage"
end if

[EricN]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

Thank you again Steve for your help.

[EricN]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

I tried the above code. I tried it with many variations. No matter what choice I make, Employers or Job Seekers, after submit, it redirects to the index page.

Also my request.variables.ulink=userid no longer works. It will work if I comment out the "If" code just given.

Below is what I currently have in my aftervalidate for a dialog.

a5ws_get_user_values(CurrentForm,request)
request.variables.ulink=userid

If currentform.controls.groups = "Employers" then
currentform.redirecttarget = "Employer_Register.a5w"
Else
currentform.redirecttarget = "index.a5w"
end if

I did change groups to RadioButton.
control name: groups
data source type: variable
variable name: GroupList

Any additional suggestions, ideas?

Thanks again,
Eric

[Steve Wood]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

I did not catch that your "groups" control was actually the security framework group list until this last post. To update the security, the groups control must be a checkbox control, not the radio button I suggested. But you still can't allow the user the option of selecting one or both, because selecting both would completely mess up what you are trying to do in the redirect. Plus it would add them to both security groups, which I don't think you want (can a person be in both groups?). Finally, someday you are going to want an Administrators security group, then your AddUser dialog would automatically offer that checkbox option to them, which you definitely don't want.

I'd save yourself the headache and just create two different sets of NewUser dialogs, one for each. The only difference is where you have your grouplist variable, there instead of grabbing the live security framework group list, you would just say:

grouplist ="Employer" or grouplist="jobSeeker" as necessary.

Answering your original question, if Employer_Register.a5w is restricted to only users belonging to the Employer security group, the reason they are getting kicked back to the Index page when you try to redirec them is because they are not logged in. Just adding someone to the security framework does not authorize them to do anything, they have to log in.

[EricN]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

Hello Steve,
1) I already have Administrator as part of the security group. I filter it out so it isn't visible to "NewUsers" by using this is my Activate

queslist = a5ws_get_security_ques(request)
pagelist = a5ws_get_page_list(request)

'create grouplist filter
grouplist = a5ws_get_groups(request,.t.)
'remove 'Administrator' from groups list
grouplist = filter_string(grouplist,"Administrators",crlf(),.T.)

Employer_Register.a5w is NOT a restricted page. It is actually available to ALL users. I just wanted to be able to redirect new users to the appropriate page depending on what "group" they chose to be in.

Currently the group RadioButton method you suggested, DOES correctly populate the group with my choices. I can see this under "Users and Groups"

What if I added another control called User_Type? Make it radio or dropdown. Here they could make the choice, again, if they are an Employer or Job Seeker. Then depending on the choice, the newuser who registers would be directed to the appropriate page.

[Steve Wood]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

Thanks for the correction on RadioButton for groups, didn't know that.

You should not need a second control. I would find out what the actual value of currentform.controls.groups is at the critical time. I often use this to test values:

save_to_file("c:\test.txt",currentform.controls.groups)

If that value = "Employers" then I cannot see why your redirect would not work.

[EricN]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

I see SAVE_TO_FILE() in the help but I don't know where to put this string. In the aftervalidate?

Also, request.variables.ulink=userid doe NOT work when I use the redirect functions.

[Steve Wood]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

Just on top of this, so you know the value just before its used:

If currentform.controls.groups = "Employers" then

[EricN]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

I used this --> save_to_file(currentform.controls.groups, "c:\test2.txt") which gave me this as a result 5f8c48b1911041fc8bee4cb8fee6310d

This is ALL I have in my aftervalidate

a5ws_get_user_values(CurrentForm,request)
request.variables.ulink=userid

save_to_file(currentform.controls.groups, "c:\test2.txt")

If currentform.controls.groups = "Employers"
currentform.redirecttarget = "Employer_Register.a5w"
Else
currentform.redirecttarget = "Jobs_List.a5w"
end if

For some reason one works (redirect OR request.variables) when I comment out the other. They do NOT work at the same time.

[EricN]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

Well...this works.

a5ws_get_user_values(CurrentForm,request)
If Request.Variables.Ulink=userid
currentform.redirecttarget = "Employer_Register.a5w"
Else
Request.Variables.Ulink=userid
End If

A dedicated NewUser dialog just for Employers and one just for Job Seekers.

Now I'm attempting to filter the groups choices that will be displayed on the web page form. I'm currently using grouplist = filter_string(grouplist,"Administrators",crlf(),.T.) to filter out Administrators but can't see how to filter out Job Seekers in the same command.

[Steve Wood]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

But now its easy. Remove everything regarding grouplist and just put this above where you save to the security in the Valiadte step.

dim request.variables.groups as c
request.variables.groups = "Employers"

You don't need to 'pull' those values out of security in order to use them. The above ends up being the same as if you got the values from security, and then filtered out the ones you don't want.

[EricN]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

But now its easy. Remove everything regarding grouplist

So� I take the group list filter out of the activate area?

This is what I have now have...
validate
a5ws_save_user_values(CurrentForm,request)
dim request.variables.groups as c
request.variables.groups = "Employers"

aftervalidate
a5ws_get_user_values(CurrentForm,request)

If Request.Variables.Ulink=userid
currentform.redirecttarget = "Employer_Register.a5w"
Else
Request.Variables.Ulink=userid
End If

[Steve Wood]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

The code I suggested goes before, not after, the save_user_values function.

[EricN]

Re: If, then redirect page in dialog

For some reason the userid field is now automatically filled with the word "Required." When I attempt to put anything in, it says, "userid:required data missing." I think I've been at this tooooo long today.

I did have info in the Profile application variables area but took it out.