Hi,

I wondered if someone could assist with a query I have ? Using asp.net 1.1 and vb.net 2003, I want to set up some hyperlinks on a page. Within these hyperlinks I want to assign a different value to each hyperlink so that when each link is clicked on, a function will display a list of items dependent upon which hyperlink and associated value is selected.

After clicking on the hyperlink, the person is then re-directed to another page. Now how can I set the value on the first page and then pass that value onto the second page ?

I thought of the following :

Set the value e.g. <a id="activebass" href="activebass.aspx">

Then I thought I would pass this value by the session object. So I used something like this :

 Dim id As String
 Session("LinkID") = id

However when I try to write out this id value on the next page, nothing appears - so the above code is failing.

How can I reference the hyperlink value id "activebass" given this is not working ? Can you pass more than one value via the session object as I already use the Session object to pass a CartID value and can you pass strings ?
Can anyone advise where I seem to be going wrong ?

Thanks,

Hi,
You can add to the link href which may be simply than using session state. You can simply add the variable as a name/value pair like this:
href="myPage.aspx?name=value"
In the called page (myPage.aspx in this case) the query string can be pulled out of the URL by the Rsponse.Query method (google this, I can't remember the code off the top of my head).
Hope that helps.
Steve

Thanks - worked nicely :)