Having a great bad time with Dependent drop down

Hello

I am very much new with your tools and often I get stuck as many time it generate wrong code with DW2020, Now for the dynamic dependent drop down I become puzzled with your new system as it just does not work on my side, sure something is wrong on my side. Can you pls help me by giving a video tutorial?

I also hope that you will make good video tutorial so that always does not need to write in the forum, Also I hope that you will test your tools with DW2020 I mean with latest version as many place I face problem due to wrong code generation the tools. I am using Win10, DW2020 with php7

The best tool I have is the tutorial: http://www.webassist.com/tutorials/Dynamic-Dropdowns-with-Data-Bridge-2-0

A customer did put together a video tutorial based on his experience getting this working. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxBP0QpO2IGwo9F2TcfUNhg/videos

Originally Said By: Ray Borduin

  The best tool I have is the tutorial: http://www.webassist.com/tutorials/Dynamic-Dropdowns-with-Data-Bridge-2-0

A customer did put together a video tutorial based on his experience getting this working. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxBP0QpO2IGwo9F2TcfUNhg/videos  

At last after several hour try I was able to make it and noticed that main problem was that the Ajax script was not generating on the page.

Now I got other problem as this dynamic dependent drop down is populating on the POST form where my requirement is the generated value I need to submit as GET to filter the record. Example on the books reading page I have to filter out the book by bookID and then by SectionID and this value I need to pass via GET so that the url is visible for the values. I could easily get the bookID value but how to get the SectionID value as it is in the child page and on the main page it is bringing the whole drop down inside a POST form.

You can add hidden form elements to the page with the parent dropdown and they will be passed with the parent dropdown form when it submits to the child dropdown plugin page.

GET and POST work the same way, so you could use either.

Originally Said By: Ray Borduin

  You can add hidden form elements to the page with the parent dropdown and they will be passed with the parent dropdown form when it submits to the child dropdown plugin page.

GET and POST work the same way, so you could use either.  

Dear Ray

I was thinking like that but can't figure out to pick the value of the field from child page as in my parent page inside the div it shows like
<?php echo((isset($WA_section_1586802530391))?$WA_section_1586802530391->Body:"") ?>

but on the child page the actual value which i need to pick is <?php echo($bookSection->getColumnVal("SectionID")); ?>

Pls guide me here.
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Here is the code of my parent page

<div class="row">
<form action="index.php" method="post" id="jumpbooks" title="For book change" accept-charset="UTF-8">
<div id="book" class="col-sm">
<select name="book" class="custom-select" id="book" onChange="framework_load_plugin_url('section.php',document.getElementById('jumpbooks'),'section','../../','');return document.MM_returnValue">
<?php
while(!$hadithBookList->atEnd()) { //dyn select
?>
<option value="<?php echo($hadithBookList->getColumnVal("BookID")); ?>"<?php if (!(strcmp($hadithBookList->getColumnVal("BookID"), ($mainHadith->getColumnVal("BookID"))))) {echo "selected=\"selected\"";} ?>><?php echo($hadithBookList->getColumnVal("BookNameBD")); ?></option>
<?php
$hadithBookList->moveNext();
} //dyn select
$hadithBookList->moveFirst();
?>
<input type="submit">
</select>
</div>
<div class="col-sm" id="section"><?php echo((isset($WA_section_1586802530391))?$WA_section_1586802530391->Body:"") ?>
</div>

</form>
</div>
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I think in order to send query by GET method I have to use another form to pick the value and then pass to URL as in this present form if i select GET method the drop down does not work,

Originally Said By: Ray Borduin

  You can add hidden form elements to the page with the parent dropdown and they will be passed with the parent dropdown form when it submits to the child dropdown plugin page.

GET and POST work the same way, so you could use either.  

OK, I figured out the way, on child page I changed the method to GET and on main page also change method to GET and it's now working fine. Thanks.

Hello

I was able to do single dependent drop down list but my situation here is I have minimum of two dependent list and can't figure out how to do.

Master list is "Books Type"
First child page list is: "Books Name"
Second child page list is: "Books Cat"

Now I can do till the first child page of Books Name but how to do the second child page for Book cat, as when the first child Books Name change then the second child "Books cat" has to change and this part I am stuck.

The concept is the same. You can add a child to the child inside the plugin and continue cascading down the line.

I can help you with this in a premier support ticket if you want to do it with screen sharing. Alternatively you could give me FTP access and a url and I can take a look a what you have done to point out where it might have gone wrong.

Originally Said By: Ray Borduin

  The concept is the same. You can add a child to the child inside the plugin and continue cascading down the line.

I can help you with this in a premier support ticket if you want to do it with screen sharing. Alternatively you could give me FTP access and a url and I can take a look a what you have done to point out where it might have gone wrong.  

Please find the login info at private message.
The page name is: http://new.hadithbd.com/books/detail/index.php?book=14&section=145

You had it close. You just had added a second form on your books-name.php page. You can't add a form inside another form. I removed it and updated the code so that the child dropdown submits the original form. I think it is working now.