Re: [mv] question/suggestion for minivend form passing syntax

[Mike Heins <mike@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Mark Stosberg (mark@summersault.com):
> 
> > ---------
> > 
> > mv_action
> > 
> >      Setting the special variable mv_action causes the page name to be
> > ignored as the
> >      action source. The above forms can use this as a synonym:
> > 
> >          <FORM ACTION="[area foo]" METHOD=post>
> >          <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_action VALUE=search>
> >          <INPUT NAME=mv_searchspec>
> >          </FORM>
> > 
> >      The page name will be used to set mv_nextpage if it is not
> > otherwise defined; if
> >      mv_nextpage is present in the form it will be ignored.
> > 
> > ----------
> 
> Thanks Ed. 
> 
>   I read about that too. It appears with this system you have to jump
> through an extra hoop of writing your own "FormAction" and then defining
> in catalog.cfg and having that action set it's own mv_nextpage value, so
> it's still not the simplicity I'm looking for. 
>

What simplicity is that? No program? 8-)

A page and an action is the minimum possible information to pass, and
that is what is passed with the above.

With MV, you can even, if you choose, make the page and the action the same
thing. But that does require predefinition except in the three actions "order",
"scan", and "search", where the predefinition is done for you.

There are even ways to go about it indirectly.

	[update values]

in a page will perform the same thing as the values update in the
"return" action.

I think you are way off base here. Perhaps MV provides so many ways to
do things that it is confusing, but that is it. TANSTAAFL.

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