Dear Michael

to let the document open you may have two soluction:



1) server solution



you insert the filling box in a form and put a submit button near the

filling box.

the action of the form is an asp page which receive the form value

with

link = request.form("....")

and then redirect the user

response.redirect link





2) client side solution



when the user select from the list, without pushing any button the user is

redirected to the page. In this case you need a client-side script, as

javascript.

and you can use the onChange method.



<FORM name=local>

<select name=sele size=1 onChange=locali()>

<option value="" selected>Scegli:<option value="">-------------

<option value=http://www...........>Bari

...... populate the filling box

</select></FORM>





<script language=javascript>

<!--

function locali(){ var opt = document.local.sele.selectedIndex; if (opt < 2)

{ return; } var opv = eval("document.local.sele.options["+opt+"].value");

self.location.href = opv;}

// -->

</script>







HTH



-----Messaggio originale-----

Da: Michael W Pickens [mailto:HO0MWP@F...]

Inviato: lunedi 4 marzo 2002 18.41

A: ASP Databases

Oggetto: [asp_databases] Re: R: RE: Filling a combo box







Giovanni:



Actually that was very helpful.  Thank you so much.



I hope you don't mind but I have one more question for you. When the user

selects a pdf how can I open up the page for them?  So if the select

hello.pdf in the combo box how can I open the hello.pdf for them.  I know

that I can use the request.form("cboStores") to get the value from the

combo box.  I just don't know how to automatically have the page appear

after the click.  I am guessing that I could write something with VBScript

using the onkeypress or just add a submit button which is what I have done.

How do I get it to automatically go to the page I want though.



Again thank-you so much for all of your help so far.



M!

















"Giovanni Salucci" <g.salucci@n...> on 03/04/2002 10:11:43 AM



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can use FileSystemObject and Server.MapPath

if all your pdf files are in a directory named PDF









     ' File System Object

     Dim fso

          Set fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")



     ' "PDF" Folder

     Dim folder

          Set folder = fso.GetFolder(Server.MapPath("\PDF"))

          ' or the physical path

          'Set folder = fso.GetFolder("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\PDF")



     If folder.Size > 0 Then %>



          <select NAME="pdf_name" SIZE="1">

          <option VALUE="0">Choose a File</option>



          <% For Each file In folder.Files %>





               <option VALUE="<%=file.Name%>"><% Response.write file.Name &

"  (" &

file.Size & ")"%></option>





          <%Next

     Else

          Response.Write "No pdf available"

     End If



Set folder = Nothing

Set fso = nothing



     %>



     </select>







HTH

Giovanni





-----Messaggio originale-----

Da: Michael W Pickens [mailto:HO0MWP@F...]

Inviato: lunedi 4 marzo 2002 15.59

A: ASP Databases

Oggetto: [asp_databases] RE: Filling a combo box









Colin thanks for replying to my post.  I appreciate you taking time out of

your busy schedule to tring and help.  If anyone who is reading these knows

how to fill a combo box using the file names of pdfs on the directory of

the server I would much appreciate knowing the answer.





Colin, I have filled a combo box before using a recordset from a database.

So I am a little familiar with that.  However, I have no idea on how to

find the names of the files on the web directory or on the C drive to

populate this combo box.  I have never done this before and the books just

cover filling in a combo box using a recordset.



I am using PWS as this is just an intranet site.  However, using the <A

ref> and the putting the files in the web directory it does not look like

it is giving the user the address of where the file is stored so I think it

is relatively safe right?  Am I missing something here?  I don't want the

users to have complete access to these files but to be able to view them.



M!









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i'm not sure about how to return an array/recordset of all the files in a

particular directory on the server - hopefully someone else can help u out

with that - but I have a couple of pointers 4 u:



Consider storing your PDFs in a non-published directory.  Then create a

virtual directory using IIS to point to this folder.  This just allows you

more freedom to move the documents onto a storage server.  This would have

the knockon effect that staff who upload the PDF files can map a drive on

their local machine and simply drag the files there - no need to have

access

to the Web server.



Also, you can't think of a combo box as being an object in ASP.  What you

do

is use your ASP code to write out the necessary HTML for a combo box, using

your loop to add the necessary number of <OPTION VALUE tags (1 for each PDF

that is).  E.g.

<OPTION VALUE="<%=rs(FileName)%>">



HTH,

Col



-----Original Message-----

From: Michael [mailto:michael.pickens@f...]

Sent: 04 March 2002 13:50

To: ASP Databases

Subject: [asp_databases] Filling a combo box





I have a combo box that I want to fill up with the name of pdf files that

will be stored in the "inetpub/wwwroot" folder.  This way the user can

choose which file they want to see and then I can use the <a href> to

bring up the file for them.  I have done this before in VB but never in

ASP.  Below is what I tried but as you can guess it didn't work.  The name

of my combo box is cboStores.  Below is the code I tried which is what I

use in VB.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.







<SCRIPT Language = VBScript>

Const Folder1 = "C:\Stores"

Const ExtSpec1 = "*.pdf"



strFileName1 = Dir(Folder1 & ExtSpec1)

Do While Len(strFileName1)

    strLength = Len(strFileName1) ' Get report name length

    strDeleteRPT = strLength - 4

  cboStores.AddItem Left(strFileName1, strDeleteRPT)

  strFileName1 = Dir

Loop



</SCRIPT>




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