Could someone shed some light on something that's beyond me please?

I'm working on a database that displays repair details of work being undertaken.
The search/display of the database is done and works fine but what I need to do is have a link from the 1st field of each repair shown and have a java? popup to display further details of the same repair.

I.E. a search is done on every repair number matching 555 and 50 results are displayed from number 55500-55550 with short details of the repair in another field to the right.
How do I add a link to execute another script with a coresponding value of, say 55500 (depending on the number selected)?
I'm using a flat-file pipe delimited database.
I'm OK with doing everything but the link submission with the coresponding value.
I'm also useless at explaining stuff but I hope you get the general idea.

In reply to Database links by vorteks

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