from simple to usefull - how to?

[djc]

I just started messing with asp/ado and have already worked through some
issues with the help of this newsgroup. Thank you all so far for all the
help!

So far I just have one asp page that contians a form to input one parameter
for a query/report. The same asp process the query. The form posts to
itself. Well now that I have that working and of course have all kinds of
other variations that I want to do how do I go about organizing this? I am
used to using VBA with access forms. So lets say I want to give a user the
option to run several different reports (one at a time... not all together)
from the same page? Do I A) make on page with simple links (a hrefs) to a
seperate page for each report. Each of these seperate pages with there own
forms that post to themselves? OR B) make on page that is divided into
sections where the user can launch any of the reports from that page? in
this case would I use one form and post all to the same asp page for
processing somehow passing along with the request a variable to indicate to
the asp file which report to create? Or just use seperate <form> elements
for each that post to seperate asp files, 1 for each report type?

I think what I'm looking to do first is have the top section of the page
contain all report options and their respective input parameter form
elements. My initial reports I'm doing this with only take one parameter so
space is not an issue. Plus I'm only talking about 3 or 4 different reports.
I would want the top section to always be there even when displaying results
from a report. The report results would display underneath this top 'report
options' section. So the user could easily run the same report agian maybe
with different parameters or one of the other reports at any time. Both from
initial page load and from the results page of any report.

Well I'm blabbing now. Really I'm looking for some experienced persons to
suggest options and which ones are good for what etc.. Coming from access
forms to IE/asp my whole concept of navigation has to be adapted to this.
Can I even send a parameter along with a button click on an html form? The
examples I've seen thus far only send what is in a text input field element.
Can I give an input element of type 'submit' and name attibute and send a
value with it for processing?

sorry for the scatterbrain post. Anyone please feel free to comment on any
of the several ?'s & issues I have blabbed about.

[Bullschmidt]

Well just to look at something to give you ideas about a Web page where
you can change the criteria for reports and choose a report you can go
to [url]www.bullschmidt.com/login.asp[/url] and then click on the Invoices Report
button...

Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt, Freelance ASP Web Developer
[url]http://www.Bullschmidt.com[/url]
ASP Design Tips, ASP Web Database Demo, Free ASP Bar Chart Tool...


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