Hi Everyone:

I have a form which has a field for the date and then 8-10 dropdown menus where the user can select a number of hours for the chosen date. Each dropdown menu is a combination of three dropdown menus which is only a field in the db. For example, instead entering a number (8.00) in a textfield, I let the user select number 8 from the first dropdown menu, 0 from the second dropdown menu, another 0 from the third dropdown menu. After that, I need to combine all three numbers into 8.00.

What I want to do is add a new record for each time that has a value. For example, the user completes the date field and then select 8.00 in mnuHour1, 4.50 in mnuHour2 and 5.00 in mnuHour3as the above steps. mnuHour4 through mnuHour8 are not selected. Upon submit, I want to add a 3 new records to the db. The db has two fields, Day and NumberofHour. So the entry for Day will be either the same or different for all three new records and NumberofHour will be different. Any ideas on what my SQL would look like or if this is even possible?

Thanks,

Quinn

You'll need to create a single INSERT statement for each row you plan on inserting. In ASP you'll need to construct the final values to insert. Then you can call the insert as many times as you want. To minimize the calls to SQL, you could make a single call with all the statements together:

INSERT INTO table(dayfield, hourfield) VALUES('<days>','<hours>');INSERT INTO table(dayfield, hourfield) VALUES('<days>','<hours>');INSERT INTO table(dayfield, hourfield) VALUES('<days>','<hours>');...

When you make the call to execute the statent in SQL, all the statements will execute. You just need to separate them with ;

Peter
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Peter:

Thanks for your quick reply. My point is can I use the For... Next to loop through the Insert statement. The following code is working fine if I use a textfield for the hour entry.

<%
Dim iCount
iCount = 0

For i = 1 to 5
    If Request("txtDate" & i) > " " Then
        iCount = iCount + 1
    End If
Next
%>

<%
    strEmpID = Request("mnuName")
    strTrans = Request("txtTransType")
For i=1 to iCount
    strHour = Request("txtHour" & i)
    strHour = Request("mnuNum" & i)
    strDate = Request("txtDate" & i)
    strType = Request("mnuType" & i)

iSQL = "INSERT INTO tTimeOffDetails (empID, dateTransaction, timeOffHour,"
iSQL =iSQL & " timeOffType, transactionType)"
iSQL = iSQL & " VALUES('"& strEmpID &"', '"& strDate &"' , '"& strHour &"',"
iSQL = iSQL & " '"& strType &"', '"& strTrans &"');"

Set rsInsert = objConnection.execute(iSQL)

Next
%>

If I use dropdown menu for the hour entry, I change my code to this, but it is not working.
<%
strHour = Cstr(Request("mnuNum" & i))+"."+Cstr(Request("mnuNum" & i))+CStr(Request("mnuNum" & i))

%>

Thanks,

Quinn

It would appear that this won't work because you are requesting the same form field for each part of the hour entry. Shouldn't you have a mnuNumA+i, mnuNumB+i, mnuNumC+i to break apart the parts of the hour?

Peter
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