Sorry if this is out of category, but it has been posted for 3 days without response elsewhere...looking for some help.

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Can I set a Session variable in conjunction with a hyperlink. I want to pick one of 8 schedules using a hyperlink. Each of the hyperlinks will call the same display page, but the hyperlink needs to set the session variable so I know which of the schedules to display. I am brute forcing it now by calling 1 of 8 pages that only set the session variable and then that page calls the schedule page. I am sure there must be a better way.

Once I get that session variable, I need to check another session variable for yes/no condition bases on the variable set above. Example:

From the first page, I select 1 of 8 hyperlinks. The hyperlink chosen sets the Session("ScheduleCategory") variable to one of 8 values (Acolyte, AltarGuild, Usher, Nursery, Lector, etc.). On the schedule page, I need to see if the user is a designated administrator for that particular schedule. I do that by looking at the Session variables set when the user logs in. So the passed parameter is in:

Session("ScheduleCategory") with values: Acolyte, AltarGuild, Usher, Nursery, etc

Comparison to:

Session("AcolyteAdmin") with values true/false
Session("AltarGuildAdmin") with values true/false
Session("UsherAdmin") with values true/false
Session("NurseryAdmin") with values true/false
Session("LectorAdmin") with values true/false

Etc.

So on the schedule page I need to look at the value of:

Session("xxxxAdmin")

How do I substitute the value of Session("ScheduleCategory") for the xxxx above and concatenate it with the word Admin?

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Hi there,

I don't understand the situation completely, but it might help to know that you can use variables as well as the Session variable names. So, Session(MyVar) will work when MyVar has a value.

Then you could do something like this:

Dim MyVar
MyVar = Session("ScheduleCategory") & "admin"
Response.Write(Session(MyVar))

Does this help? If not, please be more specific about what you're trying to accomplish.

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
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The only references to Session variables I had found were of the format
  Session("MyVariableName")
I had found no way of substituting the contents of MyVariableName into the Session reference. Your example provided that. It is part of an If Then Else loop and the following command is the one I was searching for:

  if (Session(CheckAdmin) == 1)

I have tried the code and it works! Thanks for your help.

Rich