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Hi,

Below is the detailed explanation of my problem


My application has two different users...

a) students

b) advisors.


When the advisor logs in, he has two links to navigate to

The first page has drop down menus of other advisors from which he can add permissions for some activities. In the second page, the advisor has a form with text fields where he has to enter the student details manually. Right now there is a <a href="index.cfm">Add student only for me</a>. That is when the advisors click the "add student only for me" , adds a new student, and i am retrieving the values and making them display in the page.

I am doing this as follows:

a) I am retreiving the student name as a link, so when the advisor wants to edit some information about the student , he can do so.

b) Initially, I am setting two values like

<cfset student_edit = 0>
<cfset student_add = 0>

so when the student name is clicked , i set the student_edit to 1, and have the following hidden values:

<cfif student_edit eq 1>
<input type = "hidden name="editaction" value="edit">
<cfelse>
<input type="hidden" name="addaction" value="add">

then i am creating my component object (by using <cfset saveobject = createObject(component.addstudent)>)and pass the required parameters like firstname, etc for saving the student details. There is a function called save_student() which requires parameters.

All this is working fine.

Recently, my prof asked me to add another link which says "Add student for all advisors". That is, the advisors he added in the previous page should also see these students in their students page. Currently What I am doing is as follow:


a) I created another anchor link saying "Add students for all advisors". I wrote a query to get the advisors whom the current advisor gave permissions to. Then I am getting their IDs from the database, and when I click the button, this particular student will get inserted for every advisor. So I write another function in the component to accomodate this change, which inserts this particular student for all the advisors. I am calling this function using the same component object I created above. Previously, because I coded that if its not an edit action, then add the student. Like below:

<a href="index.cfm" onClick="addform(1);return false;" <cfif editaction EQ 1>Save<cfelse>Add New Student.</cfif></a>. the addform() function is for validation purposes


I did not want to change the above code. So I wrote a javascript function like "addstudentforall()" in which I called the "add student to all advisors" function i wrote in the component, and used onclick to call the javascript function.
<a href="index.cfm" onClick="addstudentsforall();addform(1);return false;" <cfif editaction EQ 1>Save<cfelse>Add New Student for all.</cfif></a>.

Now, the problem I am facing.

When I do this separately, it works for individual links, but when I place the existing "add student for me" function above the new javascript function, both the links are showing the same functionailty that is both the links add the student only for the current advisor, and if I place the javascript function above the existing code, both the links add students for all the advisors. I have been going crazy on how to approach this. It would be great if you provide any suggestions and tell me if my approach is right.

I hope you understood my question.

Thanks