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sysadmin07
post 4 Nov, 2007 - 11:25 AM
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Hi everyone! First post.

I'm trying to send a user-entered field from a textbox into two ColdFusion variables. For example, if I have <input name="test"> and I want to set "test2" equal to it, how would I go about doing so?

I've tried the following, but to no avail:

-Form page
-Page name is formtest
-<input name="test">

-Action page (separate CF page, btw)
-<cfset test2 = "#formtest.test#">

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post 9 Nov, 2007 - 03:03 AM
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your set tag should be

[<cfset test2 = form.test>]

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Hi everyone! First post.

I'm trying to send a user-entered field from a textbox into two ColdFusion variables. For example, if I have <input name="test"> and I want to set "test2" equal to it, how would I go about doing so?

I've tried the following, but to no avail:

-Form page
-Page name is formtest
-<input name="test">

-Action page (separate CF page, btw)
-<cfset test2 = "#formtest.test#">

Thanks.
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sysadmin07
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Thank you. I ended up using a session variable and setting it equal to that. However, I'm having an issue calling it as a value in one of my textboxes. Here are the relevant chunks of my code on my action page:

<cfset session.test2=form.test>

<input name="test3" value="#session.test2#">
//This part won't work. The session.test2 value can't be called as the initial value of a textbox for some reason. The textbox's value will be shown as the text "#session.test2#" instead of the value stored in session.test2

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You need to put a <cfoutput> around the input for it to output the variable in coldfusion.
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