Re: [mv] Problem with Form/Search variable

[Mike Heins <mike@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Ramsey French (rammjet@mindspring.com):
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm hoping someone can help me with this.  It should be simple, but it is
> kicking my butt.
> 
> On my site, I'm using several nested frames.  To reuse code and keep them
> all glued together, I'm passing a "state" variable around.  The state
> variable is used to gather state information from a table in memory.
> 
> When I use the Search form on the main page of the Simple demo, I am unable
> to recover the variable after the search.
> 
> As the user comes into the store, I have [set mv_put_session]Yes[/set]
> to keep my scratch variables persistent.
> 
> I have tried the following:
> 
> a) In the search form, I have added
> 
>    <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="my_state" VALUE="9">
> 
>    But, going into the subsequent frameset, [value my_state]
>    does not contain "9"
> 

Use [process-target] instead of [process-search], and make your 
mv_todo/mv_doit action "search".

In MV4, you will be able to update values explicitly with [update values].

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