Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER
Building applications visually
Last updated 3/28/2012
Display the search results
After creating a recordset to hold the search results, you must display the information on the results page. Displaying
the records can be a simple matter of dragging individual columns from the Bindings panel to the results page. You
can add navigation links to move forward and backward through the recordset, or you can create a repeating region
to display more than one record on the page. You can also add links to a detail page.
For more information on methods of displaying dynamic content on a page other than displaying results in a dynamic
table, see
“Displaying database records” on page 555.
1 Place the insertion point where you want the dynamic table to appear on the results page, and select Insert > Data
Objects
> Dynamic Data > Dynamic Table.
2 Complete the Dynamic Table dialog box, selecting the recordset you defined to hold the search results.
3 Click OK. A dynamic table that displays search results is inserted on the results page.
Create a detail page for a results page
Your set of search and results pages can include a detail page to display more information about specific records on
the results page. In this situation, your results page also doubles as the master page in a master-detail page set.
More Help topics
“Build master and detail pages in one operation” on page 582
“Build the search page” on page 584
“Build a basic results page” on page 585
Create a link to open a related page (ASP)
You can create a link that opens a related page and that passes existing parameters to that page. The server behavior is
only available when using the ASP server model.
Before adding a Go To Related Page server behavior to a page, make sure the page receives form or URL parameters
from another page. The job of the server behavior is to pass these parameters to a third page. For example, you can pass
search parameters received by a results page to another page and save the user from entering the search parameters
again.
Also, you can select text or an image on the page to serve as the link to the related page, or you can position your pointer
on the page without selecting anything, and the link text is inserted.
1 In the Go To Related Page box, click Browse and locate the related page file.
If the current page submits data to itself, enter the current page’s file name.
2 If the parameters you want to pass were received directly from an HTML form using the GET method, or are listed
in the page’s URL, select the URL Parameters option.
3 If the parameters you want to pass were received directly from an HTML form using the POST method, select the
Form Parameters option.
4 Click OK.
When the new link is clicked, the page passes the parameters to the related page using a query string.
More Help topics
“Using forms to collect information from users” on page 623