Question

I have a basic question here not been able to get it right….
I have a ColdFusion form abc.cfm and on submit posts to

<form name="MyForm" 
      method="post" 
      action="abc_action.cfm?vempnum=
                   <cfoutput>#qGetemplookup.emplid#&year=#form.year#</cfoutput>"

Now I have a textbox and a select box and I’m able to get the emplid value on the action page in the url but not able to get the year (which is the select box value)…not sure what I’m doing wrong here. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

If I understand the question correctly, you are trying to access form.year prior to actually submitting the form that the year input exists in. This won’t work because the form scope will only be populated once the form has actually been submitted.

Trying to add form.year to the URL of the action is actually redundant, because when you do POST the form, the value selected for year will be available to you as part of the form struct.