Using cfselect onBlur to reload page using a Flash form

[3Dgregory-l6Pj6i]

I am having trouble trying to get <cfselect onBlur=""> to work inside of a <cfform format="flash"> using Flash. As soon as I put any value into the quotation marks, the Flash form no longer displays.

[Fernis · Accepted solution]

CFSELECT does not support onblur. But why would you use that? A select control does not "blur" when you change the value. You can use onchange.

<cfselect name="fish" onChange="getURL('newUrl.cfm?page='+fish.text)">

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-Fernis - fernis.net - ColdFusion Developer For Hire

[3Dgregory-l6Pj6i]

Even onchange didn't work. But I will try with the syntax that you are showing here.

The reason I wanted to have the page refresh is when I choose a different select option, I wanted the page to go back to the database and based on that selection change the value displayed on the page for the number of items added for that selection.

[3Dgregory-l6Pj6i]

The current code I have using your syntax is the following:

<cfset thisPage = "http://#cgi.server_name#">
<cfif len(trim(cgi.server_port))>
<cfset thisPage ="#thisPage#:#cgi.server_port##cgi.script_name#?#cgi.query_string#">
<cfelse>
<cfset thispage ="#thisPage##cgi.script_name#?#cgi.query_string#">
</cfif>

<cfform name="fQuiz" preloader="false" format="flash" height="750" preservedata="yes">

...

<cfselect query="qDescriptionsByInteraction" name="description" id="s3" display="MEDIABITNAME" value="MEDIABITID" width="200" label="Description (video):" onChange="getURL('#thispage#')"></cfselect>

...

</cfform>

[3Dgregory-l6Pj6i]

Now, when I change the select nothing happens. Maybe this is because I am trying to just

load the current page so that the page looks for the new value based on what is now selected.

[3Dgregory-l6Pj6i]

Now when I refreshed the page, I am getting a result when I change the select's value. I just have to now fix a problem with

Variable NEXTNUM is undefined.

Thank you for helping me get the select to respond to my input.

[Fernis]

I'm glad you got it working. Your latest error message is however totally unrelated to anything we've seen. You are just trying to access a variable named "nextnum" somewhere in your code without assigning it first on the same page (or defining a default value for it with cfparam).

-Fernis

[3Dgregory-l6Pj6i]

I fixed that problem by assigning a value to nextNum inside the conditional block for if as I recall, last night, which may have been this morning as long as I had worked yesterday.

Thanks again for getting my cfselect code back on track, because at one point I was using window.location and location.href and it wasn't doing anything. I guess I needed to use actionscript syntax.

I eventually used submitForm() but later decided to wait until I clicked the submit button anyway so that I could populate the form with the new select value and textFields.

[avilela]

I had the same problem, but using geturl() work to reload the page But every time a used it The page shows "form data has expired"

I want to submit the page instead to reload. Becuase if I click submit bottom I have created works fine.

Thanks

[3Dgregory-l6Pj6i]

I guess the reason why the onchange="window.location..." technique was not working is because this is a flash and not html form and you have to use ActionScripts's getUrl technique for cfselect onchange.