Saving Formfield Values in Group

There is NO way to group form fields by anything other then their name.  After being submitted by a browser all that form field become are post key-value pairs in the request header.  There is no grouping of any kind in these pairs in the current HTTP standard.  That leaves the form names as the only option.  If you want to group a set of fields together, append or prepend a string to the form name to group them.

I.E. to group a set of hidden field you could do this obvious naming scheme:

<form name="hidden_aField"....>
<form name="hidden_bField"....>
<form name="hidden_cField"...>

Then it is relatively easy to access these on the server response page, especially with array notation syntax.

<cfloop collection="form" item="field">
   <cfif left(field,7) EQ 'HIDDEN_">
           <!--- Do stuff with a hidden field --->
          <cfoutput>#form[field]#</cfoutput><!--- very simple example of array notation with the form scope --->
   </cfif>
</cfloop>

HTH

Ian

If it all happens in the same session,

session.something = structcopy(form);