Here is a little tidbit on the multiple page repeat region:
Not the whole string (web address removed)

?tower=01%2C+02%2C+03&date_storefrom=01%2F01%2F200 5&date_storefrom_Month=0&date_storeto=06%2F28%2F20 05
&date_storeto_Month=5&Submit=Submit+Query&offset=8 0

I can tell that the code that grabs the sql string is garbling the querystring - this should be tower IN ('01', '02', '03')

what I get fro results is all the data. I know it is in the querystring becasue if I set the numrows to 200 it will only display the seleted data.

Can't quite figure out where to begin - just tons of random looking code on the page.

Chris

I guess this was the breaking stuff I was talking about ;)

The odd characters you see are escaped versions of the ' character that cannot be passed in a normal Url. Usually, this won't be a problem as they are often unescaped again automatically. They do, however, make debugging more difficult.

How come you have '1', '2', '3' in your query string? I thought you were going for the For loop??

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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I opted for the replace method - still a loop (kind of) I guess the problem i have now is getting my repeat region working properly. I don't completely understand querystring in urlencode - but there is something wrong with it. I know it isn't passsing date values correctly either. If I just select dates - leaving everything else off - it still creates the same error. Just as an example - and maybe this problem should be posted as a new discussion:

Here is the SQL String:
SQL is SELECT * FROM tblsamples WHERE Date_Stored BETWEEN #01/01/2005# AND #06/29/2005# and Tower in ('01','02','03','04','05')

Here is the resulting querystring from the repeat region:
?tower=01%2C+02%2C+03%2C+04%2C+05&box=%2A&upn=%2A& date_storefrom=01%2F01%2F2005&date_storefrom_Month =0&
date_storeto=06%2F29%2F2005&date_storeto_Month=5&u pna=%2A&Submit=Submit+Query&offset=40

what do you think?

Try this:

<%
  Response.Write(Unescape(The escaped string you just posted))
%>

Does it look like you expected?

Maybe a new topic is indeed better.

Another suggestion to make things more manageable:

Create a separate function that creates the WHERE clause for the Sql statement. Something like:

Function MakeWhere()
  ' In here, get stuff from the query string or other variables and build up a where
End Function

Then use that in your Sql statement:

bla bla bla WHERE " & MakeWhere()

This might make it easier to manage your code....

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Here is the unescaped version - I can tell that it is pulling stuff that is not in the sql string (ie. box, upn, upna) Not to mention that the tower & date fields are not the same.

?tower=01, 02, 03,04,05&box=*&upn=*&date_storefrom=01/01/2005&date_storefrom_Month=0
&date_storeto=06/29/2005 &date_storeto_Month=5&upna=*&Submit=Submit Query&offset=40

If you use Dreamweaver's paging methods, it preserves everything that is on the querystring when you go to the next page. If you have a GET based form, that will be everything that is in your form, including text boxes and drop-down controls....

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
While typing this post, I was listening to: Blindspot by Bitmonx (Track 3 from the album: Irresistible Meltdown Vol. 2) What's This?

I used the POST method - I can tell it must be pulling data from POST or else the box, upn & upna fields would not be there. If you look at the code I have - I am making my recordset dynamically - the problem with the repeat region appears to be that it is pulling my form data instead of my sql string data. Do you know of anyway to change this - the dreamweaver code is pretty well documented - but in true dw fashion - there is a ton of it!!!!

You certainly don't have to read this - but here is the code for creating the repeat region and the repeat region navigation. Incidently, if I have the data all displayed on one page it is fine (and that may be my solution-except that we could be talking about (44*5*100 rows of data)

<%
Dim Repeat1__numRows
Dim Repeat1__index

Repeat1__numRows = 40
Repeat1__index = 0
rssample_numRows = rssample_numRows + Repeat1__numRows
%>
<%
' *** Recordset Stats, Move To Record, and Go To Record: declare stats variables

Dim rssample_total
Dim rssample_first
Dim rssample_last

' set the record count
rssample_total = rssample.RecordCount

' set the number of rows displayed on this page
If (rssample_numRows < 0) Then
  rssample_numRows = rssample_total
Elseif (rssample_numRows = 0) Then
  rssample_numRows = 1
End If

' set the first and last displayed record
rssample_first = 1
rssample_last = rssample_first + rssample_numRows - 1

' if we have the correct record count, check the other stats
If (rssample_total <> -1) Then
  If (rssample_first > rssample_total) Then
    rssample_first = rssample_total
  End If
  If (rssample_last > rssample_total) Then
    rssample_last = rssample_total
  End If
  If (rssample_numRows > rssample_total) Then
    rssample_numRows = rssample_total
  End If
End If
%>
<%
Dim MM_paramName
%>
<%
' *** Move To Record and Go To Record: declare variables

Dim MM_rs
Dim MM_rsCount
Dim MM_size
Dim MM_uniqueCol
Dim MM_offset
Dim MM_atTotal
Dim MM_paramIsDefined

Dim MM_param
Dim MM_index

Set MM_rs = rssample
MM_rsCount = rssample_total
MM_size = rssample_numRows
MM_uniqueCol = ""
MM_paramName = ""
MM_offset = 0
MM_atTotal = false
MM_paramIsDefined = false
If (MM_paramName <> "") Then
  MM_paramIsDefined = (Request.QueryString(MM_paramName) <> "")
End If
%>
<%
' *** Move To Record: handle 'index' or 'offset' parameter

if (Not MM_paramIsDefined And MM_rsCount <> 0) then

  ' use index parameter if defined, otherwise use offset parameter
  MM_param = Request.QueryString("index")
  If (MM_param = "") Then
    MM_param = Request.QueryString("offset")
  End If
  If (MM_param <> "") Then
    MM_offset = Int(MM_param)
  End If

  ' if we have a record count, check if we are past the end of the recordset
  If (MM_rsCount <> -1) Then
    If (MM_offset >= MM_rsCount Or MM_offset = -1) Then ' past end or move last
      If ((MM_rsCount Mod MM_size) > 0) Then ' last page not a full repeat region
        MM_offset = MM_rsCount - (MM_rsCount Mod MM_size)
      Else
        MM_offset = MM_rsCount - MM_size
      End If
    End If
  End If

  ' move the cursor to the selected record
  MM_index = 0
  While ((Not MM_rs.EOF) And (MM_index < MM_offset Or MM_offset = -1))
    MM_rs.MoveNext
    MM_index = MM_index + 1
  Wend
  If (MM_rs.EOF) Then
    MM_offset = MM_index ' set MM_offset to the last possible record
  End If

End If
%>
<%
' *** Move To Record: if we dont know the record count, check the display range

If (MM_rsCount = -1) Then

  ' walk to the end of the display range for this page
  MM_index = MM_offset
  While (Not MM_rs.EOF And (MM_size < 0 Or MM_index < MM_offset + MM_size))
    MM_rs.MoveNext
    MM_index = MM_index + 1
  Wend

  ' if we walked off the end of the recordset, set MM_rsCount and MM_size
  If (MM_rs.EOF) Then
    MM_rsCount = MM_index
    If (MM_size < 0 Or MM_size > MM_rsCount) Then
      MM_size = MM_rsCount
    End If
  End If

  ' if we walked off the end, set the offset based on page size
  If (MM_rs.EOF And Not MM_paramIsDefined) Then
    If (MM_offset > MM_rsCount - MM_size Or MM_offset = -1) Then
      If ((MM_rsCount Mod MM_size) > 0) Then
        MM_offset = MM_rsCount - (MM_rsCount Mod MM_size)
      Else
        MM_offset = MM_rsCount - MM_size
      End If
    End If
  End If

  ' reset the cursor to the beginning
  If (MM_rs.CursorType > 0) Then
    MM_rs.MoveFirst
  Else
    MM_rs.Requery
  End If

  ' move the cursor to the selected record
  MM_index = 0
  While (Not MM_rs.EOF And MM_index < MM_offset)
    MM_rs.MoveNext
    MM_index = MM_index + 1
  Wend
End If
%>
<%
' *** Move To Record: update recordset stats

' set the first and last displayed record
rssample_first = MM_offset + 1
rssample_last = MM_offset + MM_size

If (MM_rsCount <> -1) Then
  If (rssample_first > MM_rsCount) Then
    rssample_first = MM_rsCount
  End If
  If (rssample_last > MM_rsCount) Then
    rssample_last = MM_rsCount
  End If
End If

' set the boolean used by hide region to check if we are on the last record
MM_atTotal = (MM_rsCount <> -1 And MM_offset + MM_size >= MM_rsCount)
%>
<%
' *** Go To Record and Move To Record: create strings for maintaining URL and Form parameters

Dim MM_keepNone
Dim MM_keepURL
Dim MM_keepForm
Dim MM_keepBoth

Dim MM_removeList
Dim MM_item
Dim MM_nextItem

' create the list of parameters which should not be maintained
MM_removeList = "&index="
If (MM_paramName <> "") Then
  MM_removeList = MM_removeList & "&" & MM_paramName & "="
End If

MM_keepURL=""
MM_keepForm=""
MM_keepBoth=""
MM_keepNone=""

' add the URL parameters to the MM_keepURL string
For Each MM_item In Request.QueryString
  MM_nextItem = "&" & MM_item & "="
  If (InStr(1,MM_removeList,MM_nextItem,1) = 0) Then
    MM_keepURL = MM_keepURL & MM_nextItem & Server.URLencode(Request.QueryString(MM_item))
  End If
Next

' add the Form variables to the MM_keepForm string
For Each MM_item In Request.Form
  MM_nextItem = "&" & MM_item & "="
  If (InStr(1,MM_removeList,MM_nextItem,1) = 0) Then
    MM_keepForm = MM_keepForm & MM_nextItem & Server.URLencode(Request.Form(MM_item))
  End If
Next

' create the Form + URL string and remove the intial '&' from each of the strings
MM_keepBoth = MM_keepURL & MM_keepForm
If (MM_keepBoth <> "") Then
  MM_keepBoth = Right(MM_keepBoth, Len(MM_keepBoth) - 1)
End If
If (MM_keepURL <> "") Then
  MM_keepURL = Right(MM_keepURL, Len(MM_keepURL) - 1)
End If
If (MM_keepForm <> "") Then
  MM_keepForm = Right(MM_keepForm, Len(MM_keepForm) - 1)
End If

' a utility function used for adding additional parameters to these strings
Function MM_joinChar(firstItem)
  If (firstItem <> "") Then
    MM_joinChar = "&"
  Else
    MM_joinChar = ""
  End If
End Function
%>
<%
' *** Move To Record: set the strings for the first, last, next, and previous links

Dim MM_keepMove
Dim MM_moveParam
Dim MM_moveFirst
Dim MM_moveLast
Dim MM_moveNext
Dim MM_movePrev

Dim MM_urlStr
Dim MM_paramList
Dim MM_paramIndex
Dim MM_nextParam

MM_keepMove = MM_keepBoth
MM_moveParam = "index"

' if the page has a repeated region, remove 'offset' from the maintained parameters
If (MM_size > 1) Then
  MM_moveParam = "offset"
  If (MM_keepMove <> "") Then
    MM_paramList = Split(MM_keepMove, "&")
    MM_keepMove = ""
    For MM_paramIndex = 0 To UBound(MM_paramList)
      MM_nextParam = Left(MM_paramList(MM_paramIndex), InStr(MM_paramList(MM_paramIndex),"=") - 1)
      If (StrComp(MM_nextParam,MM_moveParam,1) <> 0) Then
        MM_keepMove = MM_keepMove & "&" & MM_paramList(MM_paramIndex)
      End If
    Next
    If (MM_keepMove <> "") Then
      MM_keepMove = Right(MM_keepMove, Len(MM_keepMove) - 1)
    End If
  End If
End If

' set the strings for the move to links
If (MM_keepMove <> "") Then
  MM_keepMove = Server.HTMLEncode(MM_keepMove) & "&"
End If

MM_urlStr = Request.ServerVariables("URL") & "?" & MM_keepMove & MM_moveParam & "="

MM_moveFirst = MM_urlStr & "0"
MM_moveLast = MM_urlStr & "-1"
MM_moveNext = MM_urlStr & CStr(MM_offset + MM_size)
If (MM_offset - MM_size < 0) Then
  MM_movePrev = MM_urlStr & "0"
Else
  MM_movePrev = MM_urlStr & CStr(MM_offset - MM_size)
End If
%>

Yeah, it also maintains the POST data. You can configure what you want to maintain.

Anyway, not sure what you mean with this: The default paging works by getting the necessary information from the form and/or querystring. If you hack your way around Dreamweaver code by changing the Sql statement, you also need to do that for the paging (sql) code.

Sorry I cannot be of much more help; reading DW code over a forum is pretty difficult, especially since I cannot test anything out and ru it in a browser to see how it works....

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
While typing this post, I was listening to: Bees (Live Mix) by Xerox & Freeman (Track 3 from the album: RETRO (10 Years of Israeli Trance Vol. 2)) What's This?

Thanks Imar!

I may just have the data output to excel instead of messing with all of this - I really do appreciate all of your help - hopefully I will be able to reciprocate by helping others in the future!

Chris

In that case, look at some of the posts from Greg Griffiths: http://p2p.wrox.com/pop_profile.asp?mode=display&id=91

On his web site, he has a number of useful articles about exporting to Excel.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.