I am very confused now as to what you are trying to accomplish. Maybe you could show a little more of your database.
As I understand it, you have about six managers each with a key user. You have a number of employees whom each fall under a manager. When an employee responds to a form, the employee's fullname goes into "sender" and the manager's name goes into the receiver. Table USERNAME FULLNAME ROLE djohnson Denise Johnson key_user_miller twendel Tom Wendel user_miller msmall Matt Small user_miller jtaavon James Taavon user_miller jsmith Joe Smith key_user_jones wwilliams Wendy Williams user_jones tharms Todd Harms user_jones So when James Taavon responds, he becomes the sender and Denise Johnson is the receiver. When Todd Harms responds, he becomes the sender and Joe Smith is the receiver. Is this correct? I'm trying to get an understanding of how your db structure works so I can assist. - Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: James Taavon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Subquery from the same table: Is it possible?? Mark, Perhaps I am confusing you. On my output i am using the same query at least that is what i was planning to do. There is also a query just for the role. I am not sure if I can delete it and use the other instead. <cfquery name="GetRole" datasource="lsar_beta"> select role from tbl_users where username = '#session.username#' </cfquery> -------------- OUTPUT FOR KEY USER ---------------- <cfif getrole.role IS "user_self"> Sandy Crisafulli <cfelseif getrole.role CONTAINS "trimble"> <cfoutput><input type="text" name="receiver" value="#getkeyuser.fullname#" size="20" readonly></cfoutput> <cfelseif getrole.role IS "user_miller"> <cfoutput><input type="text" name="receiver" value="#getkeyuser.fullname#" size="20" readonly></cfoutput> <cfelseif getrole.role CONTAINS "reich_godd"> <cfoutput><input type="text" name="receiver" value="#getkeyuser.fullname#" size="20" readonly></cfoutput> <cfelseif getrole.role CONTAINS "cooper"> <cfoutput><input type="text" name="receiver" value="#getkeyuser.fullname#" size="20" readonly></cfoutput> <cfelseif getrole.role CONTAINS "feinroth"> <cfoutput><input type="text" name="receiver" value="#getkeyuser.fullname#" size="20" readonly></cfoutput> <cfelseif getrole.role CONTAINS "edmounds"> <cfoutput><input type="text" name="receiver" value="#getkeyuser.fullname#" size="20" readonly></cfoutput> <cfelse> </cfif> -------------- OUTPUT FOR USER ---------------- <cfoutput><input type="Text" name="sender" value="#getkeyuser.fullname#" size="20" readonly></cfoutput> -----Original Message----- From: James Taavon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:21 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Subquery from the same table: Is it possible?? nope, only one person is designated as key role, but there are about six different ones, one for each manager. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew R. Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Subquery from the same table: Is it possible?? Ummm...... I don't quite understand how that code is returning two instances of the key_role unless you have it in the database twice. Am I missing something here? If it does produce two instances, are they both the same? If they are, use the distinct keyword: <cfquery name="GetKeyUser" datasource="lsar_beta"> select distinct fullname, role from tbl_users where fullname IN (select fullname from tbl_users where username = '#session.username#') </cfquery> -----Original Message----- From: James Taavon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:07 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Subquery from the same table: Is it possible?? almost like the same output I got with this, but it produces the same name in both fields. My code prodcues two instances of USER and your code produces two instances of the KEY USER. Getting closer though... <cfquery name="GetKeyUser" datasource="lsar_beta"> select fullname, role from tbl_users where fullname IN (select fullname from tbl_users where username = '#session.username#') </cfquery> -----Original Message----- From: Matthew R. Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:06 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Subquery from the same table: Is it possible?? <cfquery name="GetKeyUser" datasource="lsar_beta"> select fullname, role from tbl_users where role = ( select 'key_' & role as keyrole from tbl_users where username = '#session.username#') </cfquery> See if that works for you. It's an educated guess. - Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: James Taavon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Subquery from the same table: Is it possible?? ok. Interesting. Here is my situation. I will try to explain it has best I can. I have a response form that inserts the user into one field via session variable. The other field needs another name based on the role of the first. ROLE is a field in my database. Here is an example: USERNAME FULLNAME ROLE djohnson Denise Johnson key_user_miller twendel Tom Wendel user_miller If Tom Wendel opens a response form, his name is inserted into a field called 'sender'. I want the 'receiver' to be Denise Johnson. This is but one possible scenario as I have one key user for a manager and several users that fall under the same manager. Total of about 6 managers each with one key user to manage the users. Is this possible to use a subquery based on the way the data is structued now or do I need to make a change? I tried something like this, but got an error which did not surprise me. <cfquery name="GetKeyUser" datasource="lsar_beta"> select fullname, role from tbl_users where IN (select fullname from tbl_users where username = '#session.username#') AND role LIKE 'key_user%' </cfquery> -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:18 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Subquery from the same table: Is it possible?? > Is it possible to have a subquery from the same table to > output data based on a certain condition? Yes. It's called a correlated subquery. It's described very well in the SQL Server Books Online: "Many queries can be evaluated by executing the subquery once and substituting the resulting value or values into the WHERE clause of the outer query. In queries that include a correlated subquery (also known as a repeating subquery), the subquery depends on the outer query for its values. This means that the subquery is executed repeatedly, once for each row that might be selected by the outer query. This query finds the names of all authors who earn 100 percent of the shared royalty (royaltyper) on a book. USE pubs SELECT au_lname, au_fname FROM authors WHERE 100 IN (SELECT royaltyper FROM titleauthor WHERE titleauthor.au_ID = authors.au_id) Here is the result set: au_lname au_fname ---------------------------------------- -------------------- White Johnson Green Marjorie Carson Cheryl Straight Dean Locksley Charlene Blotchet-Halls Reginald del Castillo Innes Panteley Sylvia Ringer Albert (9 row(s) affected) Unlike most of the subqueries shown earlier, the subquery in this statement cannot be resolved independently of the main query. It needs a value for authors.au_id, but this value is a variable. It changes as MicrosoftR SQL Server(tm) examines different rows of the authors table." 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