You'll have to use normal form submit buttons for this. Javascript buttons that have functions responding to onClick events can execute client-side code only, and can't talk to your database.. a full-fledged submit must be done. If you need 12 different buttons, you'll either need to (as mentioned above) name the submit buttons, or use 12 different forms on your page. I would choose the latter of those two choices, as it would let you break up the code into more managable chunks, rather than one huge block of code which must be re-parsed on every submit and use a bunch of if/elsif statements. This also, of course, depends on if, and how much, of the same code will be executed depending on which button is pressed.

In reply to Re: Need buttons on web page for retrieving database values by plaid
in thread Need buttons on web page for retrieving database values by brysonic venture

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