Unless I'm missing something, or you're doing something you've not mentioned (eg an Ajax call to handle the data of each 'step'), what he's saying is, when your final "step" gets submitted, all the data from the prior steps is lost. Only the submitted form's data is available to the action page. On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Don L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>Unfortunately multi-tab form is parallel (I believe) while my case is > >sequential processing > > > >There is no "sequential processing" of multiple forms possible in HTML. > >You can have several forms in a page, but only one can submit. > >Tab forms is a solution to temporarily hide parts of a form, but only > >one form is needed. > > > > Are you an expert in, say, DOM? To my knowledge, each and all > "web"/script page, be it written in cf, jsp, asp, php, would be rendered by > a UA (browser here), and the underlying technology for that is DOM, so, it > does not matter how many HTML forms on a 'page'/script the web server sends > to the browser, the UI would do it its rendering. I could write client side > javascript for data validation for each form, however, that > approach/technique defeats the purpose of using CFFORM (which does data > validation among others), why reinvest the wheel? Or am I not thinking > straight? But if you're saying, cf-supported data validation can only > support one form on a page/script then its design is totally yester-year, > and I hope Adobe engineers can step up the challenge, thks. I hope you see > that I have a fairly strong business case for this... > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:303434 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
