Custom-Menu Item --Select Box Update

Greetings,
I have a question regarding using a select box in the custom-menu-item. What I hope to accomplish is to use the select to capture the value the user has selected.

<select name='$usersChoice'>
<option value='value1'>value1</option>
<option value='value2'>value2</option>
<option value='value3'>value3</option>
</select>

The problem is that, I believe the form has to be refreshed in order to capture what the user has selected. However upon doing so, the values are flushed and I lose my selected value. Does anyone know how to get around this problem?

Thanks,
--jum

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Jumjum

Problem resolved!

--jum

tvaughan

I've got a couple custom menu items that solicit input, then need to do something based on that input. I didn't have much CGI experience when I wrote these (I'm a J2EE kinda guy), but here's what I did:

Custom menu item is clicked and "selection.cgi" handles the click. It has a form with some questions that the user fills in. Within the < form> tags, I loop over every environment variable I got from TeamSite, and rewrite those variables as < hidden> form tags, like so:


            print "< form method=POST action='$prompt'>\n";
            print "  < tr>\n";
            foreach my $key (sort keys %{$cgi->{form}}) {
                print "    < input type='hidden' name='$key' value='$cgi->{form}{$key}'>\n";
            }

       ***  the rest of the visible form ***

Then, I "post" that form to a "selection_handler.cgi" for processing and actual execution of some value-added utility. I'm sure if I was smarter, I could figure out a way to post to myself, but this was the most straightforward way to go when I wrote it.

Tom