I have an application - an insurance form - which requests personal data on
form one. If the user checks auto or homeowner (or both) on the first form
I need to collect data from each of these (popup?) forms (Auto and HomeOwner
respectively) and then write this collected data to an email message.
Passing selected data to the child forms via the url is possible, but I'm
certain I'd run into a length problem. Since I still have the parent open
then windows.opener.<var>.value is reasonable(??).
Presuming that the user checks both homeowner and auto, after one form is
closed (and we return to the parent) how do I pass this data back to the
parent form?
Session objects (on client side?) appear to be a possible means of passing
data both ways, but I'm not certain from what I've read. Since references
to session variables seems slim - I presume there are better ways. What is
the best <??>, most commonly used way??
When all is said and done - I pass the form to VB ASP script to write the
message (or at least I have done so with several other single page forms).
How do I pass this colloelction of data to something to generate an email
message?
History: I'm an old COBOL / APL / C programmer trying to catch up with the
times, I'm not asking anyone to write code for me - but would surely
appreciate anyone making suggestions and/or pointing me toward appropriate
references.
Thanks //al