wow, i didn't mean to start such a heated debate. :) but thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
Wendy, i was actually doing something similar to your suggestion but i was appending the parameters to the action using javascript. i don't know why i didn't think of just putting them in the original link. thanks for that suggestion. Michael, i'm also going to check out your solution on the struts wiki. tthanks for pointing me to that. (i may email you off list with questions if you don't mind). thanks again everyone. andy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]