Is userID a member of your ActionForm subclass? If you make it a member of your ActionForm, it will get maintained (provided you don't wipe it out in your reset() method) for you if you have a <html:hidden property="userID"/> tag in your jsp. I tried this using a session scoped form and it worked.
Tim -----Original Message----- From: Jakkampudi, ChandraseKhar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:29 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: Request: Property vs Attribute I have a jsp that displays details of a user. The display is in a form that can also be used to modify user details. Access to this page is via a url like http://xyz.com/userDetails.do?userID=123. However the userid is not a editable field and I use a hidden variable to pass this information back to the server fo updates. On validation, if I return to the input page, the hidden variable is lost. So I use request.setAttribute("userID", "123") in the perform method of the action before redirecting to set the information back. However because of this I have to have this conditional at the top of my jsp String userID = request.getParameter("userID"); if (userID == null){ userID = (String) request.getAttribute("userID"); } This is because the logic:present tag just uses the getParameter command and returns false even if the required string is an attribute of the request. I know I can change the source, but it would be difficult to maintain as I have to remember this fact everytime we do an upgrade. Any suggestions on how to implement this better without using scriptlets. -JC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
