Steve,

I don't know anything about your situation, but if you don't get an
answer here, there's a DW yahoo group that's pretty active and full of
folks who really know how to do stuff! There are several moderators and
other folks who write the how-to books for DW and other products.

To join, send an email to 'adobe-dreamweaver-subscribe@yahoogroups.com'
with 'subscribe' in the subject line, and you'll be set.

MC

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From: Dreamweaver Talk [mailto:dreamweaver@lists.lassosoft.com] On
Behalf Of Mark Stevens (Steve) Willis
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 2:48 PM
To: Dreamweaver Talk
Subject: [Dreamweaver Talk]SPRY Questions

Hi, all!

I'm a newb on this list and need some help with adapting DW CS4's SPRY
framework to accomplish what I want to do.

I'm doing a school site that allows remote campuses to send and receive
student info to the main campus. The site interfaces with a Filemaker
database via Lasso. The FMP/Lasso part is a given and alternatives are
non-issues here.

For static data, I'm using HTML-table-based SPRY datasets to supply the
read-only info for certain screens to reduce the load on the database
server. I am forced to use HTML tables for the datasets because FMP's
native XML export files are ridiculously formatted and can't even close
some of the tags properly.

So, in this instance, I have an HTML dataset with student information.
I want to populate a <SELECT> list with student names that will then use
the dataset to look up other information and populate the values of some
<INPUT> text fields with the info for each student.

I have successfully adapted a standard SPRY Master/Detail list to
populate the <INPUT> fields. What I have not successfully accomplished
is hooking up a <SELECT> list to trigger the same lookup.

Questions:

1. Is what I am attempting to accomplish doable with standard SPRY
routines? If so, how?

2. If not, has anyone here pulled this off successfully using custom
code or know where I can find some open-source functions to accomplish
this?

3. Is this kind of thing going to be easier to set up using Lasso
instead of SPRY?

Thanks!

Steve
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