To see what's in the FORM scope, add this above the point it errors. <cfdump var="#FORM#"> <cfabort>
See what that shows you. Adrian http://www.adrianlynch.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: alex poyaoan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 April 2008 13:56 To: CF-Talk Subject: problem with form field undefined HI everybody below is the error which Coldfusion gives me: Element PID is undefined in TESTFORM. (this is the error that coldfusion gives me as soon as I press the ok button that should update the info table) action.cfm The error occurred in C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\db\db1.cfm: line 4 2 : UPDATE info 3 : SET 4 : pID = #form.PID#, 5 : sID = #form.SID# 6 : WHERE id=#form.ID# I have this form on the first template that calls the action.cfm it gets it's data from a query named check <cfoutput> <CFFORM ACTION="action.cfm" format="xml" skin="lightgray" width="500" preservedata="yes" METHOD="Post"> <!--- <cfinput type="hidden" name="Tab" value="1"> ---> <cfinput type="text" name="PID" value="#check.PID#"> <cfinput type="text" name="SID" value="#check.SID#"> <cfinput type="text" name="ID" value="#check.ID#"> <cfinput type="submit" name="Submit" value=" ok "> </cfform> </cfoutput> I don't know what's getting this error since PID is defined in the form please help ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:304065 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4