guys, i am working on this customer care code
here, after a login page, i am redirecting it to another page where the verification is happening & the username string is being passed to the new page where the data is being displayed using request. querystring as...........

eng2=request.querystring("enm")
rs.Open "select * from call where engineer_id='" & eng2 & "'",con

now i have put some checkboxes & dropdowns to refine the query.
eg.
<%if (request.form("DATE")<>"ON" and request.form("CS")="ON" and request.form("LOC")="ON") then

rs.open "select * from call where (call_status = '" & t3 & "') AND (level_of_call = '" & t4 & "') AND (engineer_id='" & eng2 &"')",con

end if
%>
here, the value of engineer is not being picked from the querystring & thus nothing is being displayed
i have tried putting eng2 in hidden field & tried to lift the value form there using request.form but even tht doesnt help

how do we pass a value from one page if request.form & request.querystring dont work???
please help me someone!!!

I don't quite understand what is going on here? Are we talking about 1 or 2 page hits? You have the login page, this redirects to the query page. Then you have some dropdowns to refine the query and then you re-post the form? Is that what is happening?

Putting the value from eng2 into a hidden element with the same name as the querystring argument should do the trick, but you say that doesn't work.

A possible better solution, particularly because you have login functionality is to use the Session. Once the engineer logs in, save the engineerID in the session and use that in the other pages and you won't have to worry about carrying that value around with you on the querystring or in hidden form fields.

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

thanks a ton
the session idea worked fine!