Re: [mv] Result Page Ordering Multiple Pages MV 4.04

[Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu>]

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> I currently have a link that provides a large number of results from the
> database.  These results are listed on a results page 14 items at a time for
> up to 100 pages.  A customer can on any one of these pages enter the item
> quantity they want for a particular product.  The problem I have is the
> following:  A customer want to place an order for an item on the first page
> they enter the quantity and then proceed to page 5 of the results them
> he/she clicks on the order button--the only item that makes it to the cart
> is the last one the customer entered a qty for all others are lost.

Okay, the problem is that you are leaving a page without actually doing
anything. You enter in say 20 bbls on page 1 and then go to page 5 and
enter 5 and then hit quote... You'll obviously never get the 20 bbls on
page 1 because the form in which you entered the data was never
processed. 

The socially engineered solution is to get people to click on 'quote'
before they leave the page. This isn't a very good solution though. My
suggestion would be to have each of the links in the more-list actually
be a type of submit button distinct in its action from the quote button.
The more-list submits would process the item into some sort of data
structure (maybe even the cart itself) and then bounce the user to the
requested page (maybe through the use of an intermediate page that was
just MV tag foo to process the form). 

As to how you would implement this solution I do not know off the top of
my head. Its kind of a neat problem though.
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