1 form with 2 buttons to go to 2 different pages

Question

Hi. I have 1 form I'm using on a page for adding some information. I have an Add button at the bottom that goes to an action page that inserts the data into an Access Database and displays what was inserted. I want to use the same form, but I want to have another button that goes to a different page, but still inserts the data into the database. How do I do this? Below is what I have for the beginning of the form and the button I click on to add it to the database. I won't put all the stuff inside the form so I keep this concise.
<cfform name="AddECNumber" action="add_new_ec_number_action.cfm" method="post">
<input type="button" value="Add" onclick="verify();">
Andy

Answer 1

jamie61880 wrote:
BKBK,
     Thank you. This works great! I do have one more question though, now. Once the 2nd button is clicked, I would like it to go to an existing page I already have set up. This page is called "add_item_existing_eco.cfm". Normally, to get to this page, the user would have clicked a link to get here. Then this page just adds an item to the ECO.
     But now, I want the page with the form I talked about above to go to this page also, once the form is submitted. So I could add the Inserting code to the "add_item_existing_eco.cfm" page and display the info, but how am I going to prevent the info. from when a link is clicked, to not insert more data.
    I would need an If Statement that says if the "Add new Item Button" was clicked from the Add ECO page, then just insert the data and display the info. Elseif the info. came from a link, then just display the data. How can I say If the "Add new Item Button" was clicked from the Add ECO page? Does this make sense? Or should I just create a new page for when this "Add new Item Button" is clicked?
Yes, the question is clear. There are 2 possible scenarios:
1) From now onwards, an insert will only be done by means of the form button. Coming to the action page by means of a link will no longer lead to an insert.
Form page:
<script type="text/javascript">
function verify()
   document.myform.action ="add_new_ec_number_action.cfm";
   document.myform.submit();
function sendIt()
   document.myform.action ="add_item_existing_eco.cfm";
   document.myform.submit();
</script>
<cfform name="myform" method="post">
<cfinput type="text" name="txt"><br>
<cfinput type="button" name="submitBtn" onclick="verify()" value="Add"><br>
<cfinput type="button" name="submitBtn" onclick="sendIt()" value="Insert">
<cfinput type="hidden" name="isUpdated" value="yes">
</cfform>
Page add_item_existing_eco.cfm:
<cfif isDefined("form.isUpdated") and form.isUpdated>
<!--- Insert the data --->       
</cfif>
<!--- Display the info --->
2) An insert can be triggered by the link or by the form-button, which ever arrived first at the page dd_item_existing_eco.cfm.
I do believe the best solution in this scenario is to use the database. Start, for example, by determining which column in the database table can be used to verify that an insert has occurred. A datetime column is ideal for this purpose.
Then add a query, like the following, to verify whether an insert has already occurred in a specific time.
<!--- Number of inserts done in the past 6 hours (Assumption: doneDate registers datetime of each insert) --->
<cfquery name="verifyInsert" datasource="myDSN">
    select count(*) as numberOfInserts
    from myTBL
    where doneDate > #createODBCDatetime(dateAdd("h",-6,now()))#
</cfquery>
<cfif verifyInsert.numberOfInserts EQ 0><!--- No insert has yet occurred --->
<!--- Code to do insert --->
</cfif>
<!--- In all cases, display info --->