How to setup a dynamic jump menu field

Question

I attempted to setup a normal drop down with a button to
excute the values,
but that doesnt seem to work very well... even though the
database has the
correct links within the tables, regardless of what selection
you make you
are taken to the same page all the time.
Is there a way to use the jump menu dynamically? I want the
menu to be
populated from my table, i dont want to have to manually
build the menu....
When i try to use it, it doesnt have the dynamic radio button
to chose a
recordset.. its all manual entry

Answer 1

Man that took a long time to come back with?
But this should work for you.
Add a standard List Box to your page. Click 'List Values' in
your Property
inspector at the bottom of the page. Click the 'lightning
bolt' to add the
labels that you want to display from your recordset, and then
click the
'lightning bolt' in the values column. Choose the recordset
and the field
that contains the ID you want to pass to the detail page. Now
click ok, and
Dreamweaver will have put some code in the value column for
you. You need
to add a
prefix to this that will tell it what page and the name of
the URL parameter
you want to pass.
ie
mydetailpage.asp?ID=<%=the code Dreamweaver Created%>
Ok so you now have the correct values in the list box.
Now open up a second page, and add a Jump Menu to it. Just
add one item
containing anything.
Go to the code view and copy into the clipboard the
JavaScript code that
Dreamweaver created to make the JumpMenu work. Make sure that
you get
everything
including the <script> tags.
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function MM_jumpMenu(targ,selObj,restore){ //v3.0
some more code here!!!
//-->
</script>
Paste this into a similar place on your other document. (just
above the
</head> tag).
All you need to do now is modify the List Menu you created to
use the Jump
Menu code.
You will have something that says:
<select name="select">
Change this to:
<select name="select"
onChange="MM_jumpMenu('parent',this,0)">
That should do it!!!
Dave
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> > Dave
> > "Daniel" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> > news:[email protected]...
> >> I attempted to setup a normal drop down with a
button to excute the
> > values,
> >> but that doesnt seem to work very well... even
though the database has
> >> the
> >> correct links within the tables, regardless of
what selection you make
> >> you
> >> are taken to the same page all the time.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to use the jump menu
dynamically? I want the menu to be
> >> populated from my table, i dont want to have to
manually build the
> > menu....
> >>
> >> When i try to use it, it doesnt have the
dynamic radio button to chose
a
> >> recordset.. its all manual entry
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>