in reply to How to retain a value passed from another link to a script

Well, remember Re: How to get input text boxes populated? Exact same way

Write a subroutine to make links, make that subroutine retain the values 

<a href="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME=SomeKindOfLinkForOrderID -->">Details</a>

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Then give the template return value of MakeSomeKindOfLinkForOrderID($query)

Same idea , subs subs subs Re: pagination links (logic)

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