Question

I have a form "test.cfm" It passes values to an action page "testAction.cfm"!

test.cfm does the following:-

1. A drop down box “fruitsList”.

2. A query “qryFruits” that pulls data and then displays the query-result set

3. “Add” button for every query-result set

How it should work:-

5. The dropdown “fruitsList” is to be selected.

6. Once the “Add” button in the result list is selected the “query-result set -CurrentRow” value is to be passed.

Add button is passing the “query-resultset -CurrentRow” value but NOT the "Drop down" Value.

How to pass the “dropdown- selected-value”?

    <!--- test.cfm --->
    <script type="text/javascript" >
          function assign_fruits()
         //  
         {
           var a = document.fruitsForm.fruitsList.selectedIndex;
           document.getElementById('salesForce').value = document.fruitsForm.fruitsList.options[a].value; 
           }
        </script>
    
    <form name="fruitsForm" >
    <table>
      <tr>
       <td>
        <select name="fruitsList" onChange="assign_fruits()">
         <option disabled="true">select One
         <option value="m1">apple
         <option value="m2" selected>orange
         <option value="m3">banana
         <option value="m4">grape
         <option value="m5">mango
        </select> 
       </td>
<!--- Trying to assign the DD-value to an input field --->
 <input  name="salesForce" value=""> 
      </tr> 
     <cfquery name="qryFruits" datasoure="#dsn#">
      Select values from Fruits_Table
     </cfquery>
     <cfloop startrow="1" endrow="#qryFruits.recordcount#" query="qryFruits">
      <cfoutput>
      <tr> 
       <td><a href="testAction.cfm">Add</a></td>     
      </tr>   
      </cfoutput>
     </cfloop>
    </table>
    
    </form>

Answer 1

You are going about this a bit unconventionally but I believe the following does what you’re looking for:

 <cfdump var="#form#">

<!--- test.cfm --->
<cfset qryFruits = queryNew("fruitID,fruitName")>
<cfset queryAddRow(qryFruits, 2)>
<cfset querySetCell(qryFruits, "fruitID", 1, 1)>
<cfset querySetCell(qryFruits, "fruitName", "Kiwi", 1)>
<cfset querySetCell(qryFruits, "fruitID", 2, 2)>
<cfset querySetCell(qryFruits, "fruitName", "Lime", 2)>

<script type="text/javascript" >
    function assign_fruits() {
        var a = document.fruitsForm.fruitsList.selectedIndex;
        document.getElementById('salesForce').value = document.fruitsForm.fruitsList.options[a].value; 
    }
    function submit(id) {
        document.getElementById('fruitClicked').value = id;
        document.forms["fruitsForm"].submit();
    }
</script>

<form name="fruitsForm" id="fruitsForm" action="index.cfm" method="post">
    <p>
        <select name="fruitsList" onChange="assign_fruits();">
            <option value="">select One</option>
            <option value="m1">apple</option>
            <option value="m2" selected>orange</option>
            <option value="m3">banana</option>
            <option value="m4">grape</option>
            <option value="m5">mango</option>
        </select>
    </p>

    <!--- Trying to assign the DD-value to an input field --->
    <p>Fruit Slected from List Above: <input name="salesForce" id="salesForce" value=""></p>
    <p>Fruit Clicked Below: <input name="fruitClicked" id="fruitClicked" value=""></p>
    <cfloop startrow="1" endrow="#qryFruits.recordcount#" query="qryFruits">
    <cfoutput>
        <div></div><a href="##" onclick="submit(#qryFruits.fruitID#);">#qryFruits.fruitName#</a></div>
    </cfoutput>
    </cfloop>
</form>

Note that you are missing “id” attributes in some of your elements which was causing your JavaScript to fail.