How can I get this to work?

The "another users name kept appearing" is because it's session related. It's going to be real hard to just re-direct your user to a specific class since the session will have to be initiated first. You might be able to use cfhttp and get it set up for the user before you redirect the user, but the best bet here is to contact the admin of the other site and see if you can work together and perhaps get them to create a web service for partial registering classes or a class locator link service, where you send a request for the class and it responds back with the link to use for the redirect

I was wanting to generate a new one because it seemed like when I was
testing it, when I used the link below, another users name kept appearing
(perhaps someone who had registered).

I'm just using it to allow people from our website to register for
classes....

"Azadi" <azadi@sabai-dee.com> wrote in message
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> and what's the problem with using the full link url as it is?
> why can't you use the
> https://www.memberst.com/Programs/Sessions.aspx?id=B0144C6D-B481-47B7-806C-1C2FA45AB276
> link?
> why do you need to "generate" the id value?
> where and how are you creating/using this link in your cf app?
>
> --
>
> Azadi Saryev
> Sabai-dee.com
> http://www.sabai-dee.com
>

and what's the problem with using the full link url as it is?
why can't you use the
https://www.memberst.com/Programs/Sessions.aspx?id=B0144C6D-B481-47B7-806C-1C2FA45AB276
link?
why do you need to "generate" the id value?
where and how are you creating/using this link in your cf app?

--

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com

So what's the best way to point to a specific location on a aspx page. I do
have to browse to the location right now, but would like a link I'm defining
to be able to point to the final destination......

"Azadi" <azadi@sabai-dee.com> wrote in message
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> Steve Grosz wrote:
>> Is there a way to generate a 'id' or create a 'id' so I can link right to
>> the section I
>> need? I can't point right to the section I need using CF, I need that
>> 'id' as well....
>
> i hope you do realise that that id is not just a random collection of
> letters and numbers, but a unique identifier of a particular record (or
> other type of data) you are trying to access on that website... if you
> just "generate" some string of similar format, you will not get any data
> returned unless you somehow managed to generate a unique identifier of
> some record there, which is unlikely as those GUIDs/UUIDs are rather
> random and unique....
>

Azadi has a good point.

The udf I mentioned only creates a microsoft compatible UUID.

Given the name of the file being called in the url "Sessions.aspx", the information may be even more transient than an existing record/object and may be generated at the start of a session and the internals of the remote app are managing which section to deliver to the browser.

Steve Grosz wrote:
> Is there a way to generate a 'id' or create a 'id' so I can link right
> to the section I
> need? I can't point right to the section I need using CF, I need that
> 'id' as well....

i hope you do realise that that id is not just a random collection of
letters and numbers, but a unique identifier of a particular record (or
other type of data) you are trying to access on that website... if you
just "generate" some string of similar format, you will not get any data
returned unless you somehow managed to generate a unique identifier of
some record there, which is unlikely as those GUIDs/UUIDs are rather
random and unique....

Modifies the CF CreateUUID() function to return a UUID in the form that Microsoft uses.

http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?id=54&enable=1