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So I try it again.

For example there is a product-database and you want to have an extra review for every product in extra html-pages. From the database you would link to these extra plain html-pages.
This pages will be ID.html
So you can put a link around the database-ID.
For example a product with ID=3 would have the review-page 3.html

To do this you have to change in sub html_record

...
print qq|
<TABLE WIDTH="475" CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=1 BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC">
<TR><TD ALIGN="Right" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="20%"><$font_color>ID:</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="80%"> <$font>$rec{'ID'}</Font></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="Right" VALIGN="TOP"><$font_color>Title:</FONT></TD>
<TD> <$font>$rec{'Title'}</Font></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="Right" VALIGN="TOP"><$font_color>URL: </FONT></TD>
...

to
...
<TD WIDTH="80%"> <$font><a href="$rec{'ID'}.html">$rec{'ID'}</a></Font></TD></TR>
...


When you do this and look at the output of the database when you chooe *List all*, then there is the link at the ID. But the link goes to: <B>ID_value</B><B></B>

For the example ID=3 this means: <B>3</B><B></B>

So the URL which will load, when you click on the link is
http://www.hostname.com/path/<B>3</B><B></B>

Here is a live example:
http://212.184.209.167/db_test/
Log in as admin and choose: *List All* ...

That's more than strange.
I have it on my local computer and on the computer of my provider.
It happens also with the original dbman-demo. I don't change anything of the setup, just the things to get it running on the computer.

This happens just with the ID-field. With any other fields you don't see this problem. So why can't I use the ID-field in "" ?

Regards
Johannes

PS: Now I've seen, when you choose one record (for example ID=3) through the View-Form, than the result will be ... <B>3</B>, so the empty <B></B> is gone !?


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Thread Make a link from ID does not work jmar 4465 Aug 16, 2001, 10:23 PM
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Beck 4360 Aug 16, 2001, 11:24 PM
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jmar 4340 Aug 17, 2001, 1:47 AM
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Beck 4341 Aug 17, 2001, 2:47 AM
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jmar 4305 Aug 20, 2001, 4:51 AM