Updating, Adding, or Deleting rows from a query

Question

So, I've got this page that originally was made of four
different forms. It worked great. But, then the client asked that I
"idiot proof" the page.
Originally, I had a form that enclosed a one-line table (with
Add & Clear buttons on the end) that took seven fields and
"added" a new record to the "tbljob" table.
That was followed with another form that created a table from
the results of a cfquery and listed all the rows from tbljob (with
Update/Delete buttons on the end of each row).
This worked fine when it was two separate forms. Now, I'm
trying to use only one "form" while displaying the two tables. The
buttons are now done with Javascript (so there are dialog boxes).
The problem is that I am getting a CF error message because the
insert, update, and delete commands are trying to pass the contents
of the fields as comma-delimited lists rather than the single data
item that is actually in each field. I am passing a hidden field
with each row that contains the "job_id".
I know the problem is that I'm not identifying each row as
being unique. I guess it's like I'm passing an "array" of data
rather than just a "row".
Basically, I just want to be able to display a blank row for
adding records followed by multiple rows from a query. The blank
row needs to have "Add" and "Cancel" buttons at the end and the
multi-row part has to have "Update" and "Delete" buttons on the end
of each row and manage the appropriate records.
It's got me stumped. TIA.

Answer 1

What you can do is try using <cfloop> to insert, update
and delete your information.
For instance deleting the information try this.
<!---- Delete Jobs---->
<cfloop index="JobIDs" list="#Job_ID#" delimiters=",">
<cfquery name="delteall" datasource="dbsource">
DELETE
FROM table
Where job_Id = #JobIDs#
</cfquery>
</cfloop>
Do the same for your inserting and updating.
Because what CF see is job_id = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
SO you are looping over a list = #job_id# and delimiter is "
, " and we are calling the index JobIDs. JobIDs are the values - 1
2 3 4 5 6 ....
I hope this helps. As for the displaying of the images, use
if then statements:
<cfif isdefined("edittable") and edittable eq '"y">
Then display the query and outputs for the editing options
<cfelseif isdefined("deletetable") and addtable eq "y">
The dispaly the query and outputs for adding options
<cfelse>
Then display the query for outputing the delete options
</cfif>
So your link will have soemthing of this sort <a
href="samepage.cfm?deletetable=y">Add Table</a>
Hope this helps,
Sevor Klu