Sorry I donšt follow. I donšt have an <@IFEMPTY> statement.
Steve On 4/1/03 11:01 AM, "Steve Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should be able to put the <@ASSIGN> inside of an <@IFEMPTY> that checks > for the existance of the variable. If it's not there, do the assign. > > Hope this helps, > > Steve Smith > > Oakbridge Information Solutions > Office: (519) 624-4388 > GTA: (416) 606-3885 > Fax: (519) 624-3353 > Cell: (416) 606-3885 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.oakbridge.ca > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steve Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: April 1, 2003 11:57 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Adding numbers to list results >> >> >> Thank you for this..it worked great! >> >> How can I get it to list just one. When I hit refresh, of course, >> it calc's >> another one and so on. >> >> Is there a way to just list the first on it comes up with and then stays >> there? >> >> Thanks again >> >> Steve >> >> On 3/31/03 4:15 PM, "Robert Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Do a search action returning the whole list, you don't need all the >>> fields, maybe even just the id. >>> >>> <@assign local$wholeList @@resultSet> >>> >>> <@assign local$winningRow <@random low=1 high=<@numrows >>> array=local$wholeList>>> >>> >>> <@assign local$theWinnerIs <@var local$wholeList[@@local$winningRow,*]>> >>> >>> That should do it. >>> >>> Robert. >>> >>> On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 02:05 PM, Eric Weidl wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>>> I'm building a random drawing system and all I'm going to do is >>>>> insert a >>>>> random number in a column of an array and then sort the array and >>>>> whoever is >>>>> at the top is the winner. >>>> >>>> How are you ensuring that each random number in the array is unique? >>>> >>>> If you aren't, then how do you decide who's the winner if 2 or more >>>> people have the same random number? >>>> >>>> Are you sorting ascending or descending? How do you decide? It will >>>> affect who wins. >>>> >>>> >>>> Here's a method we've successfully used in the past to identify a >>>> random winner from a set of users. >>>> >>>> >>>> 1) Do a select action to get all the eligible contestants and their >>>> information. You could sort the data or not. >>>> >>>> 2) In the results HTML for the search action, put the following code >>>> (modified for your table/column names, of course): >>>> >>>> >>>> <@! Set the range for the random number selection > >>>> <@ASSIGN local$randomRangeLow VALUE="1"> >>>> <@ASSIGN local$randomRangeHigh VALUE="<@NUMROWS>"> >>>> >>>> <@! Pick a random winner from the range. The winnerIndex is the row >>>> number of the winner. > >>>> <@ASSIGN local$winnerRowIndex VALUE="<@RANDOM LOW='<@VAR >>>> randomRangeLow>' HIGH='<@VAR randomRangeHigh>'>"> >>>> >>>> <@! And the winner is... > >>>> <@VAR resultSet[<@VAR winnerRowIndex>,*]> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hope this helps. >>>> >>>> Eric >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________________________________ >>>> _ >>>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Robert Garcia >>> President - BigHead Technology >>> CTO - eventpix.com >>> 2781 N Carlmont Pl >>> Simi Valley, Ca 93065 >>> ph: 805.522.8577 - cell: 805.501.1390 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ - http://theradmac.com/ >>> >>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
