Preserving data

[standardCode]

I'm using flash forms and was wondering if data can be preserved. If a user
enters some data and submits the form. If there is something wrong I redirect
them back to the form but all their input is gone. How do I preserve this data?

[Dan Bracuk]

How do you re-direct them?

Not sure about flash forms, but, with html forms, if you submit the form, and
then use your browswer to go back, your values will still be there. Try it
with your form.

If the values are still there, you can javascript them back,
(window.history.back(1) or something like that).

Otherwise you can make them all session variables and change your form page to
use whatever session variables exist.

[SafariTECH]

If you use CFFORM and submit the form to itself (action and form on same page)
and use <cfform preservedata="Yes" then it will remember previous selections
.... this works in HTML, XML, or FLASH forms.

If you want to have your form page separate from the action page then you can
use session variables for the form to remember them. It's a bit more work, but
I remember doing this long ago before forms had the preservedata ability

Relying on the browser's "memory" is not a very efficient or dependable
solution.