Passing Value to an ASP URL on Another Site

Looking for help formatting a URL to preselect a dropdown box value

[AIDSorg]

Our organization's fiscal sponsor (nonprofit) is providing us with a means to collect donations using a generic page using <an online giving/donation service>:

[subdomain.example.org...]

This link translates to this:

http://www.example.org/AutoGen/Simple/Donor.asp?ievent=149093&en=gqJHIVMBJ5LGKZPxF5JPJ1OFKhLKJ2OBLfIRJ2PMJuE

On the donation page, donors are required to find a drop down box, expand it, and select <our name> out of a list of about 150 entries.

I'd like to make this easier for our donors, and pass a URL to the service that PRESELECTS <our name>

I don't know anything about ASP, but it MIGHT be in this kind of format:

[subdomain.example.org...]

Again, I don't know ASP, and have been unable to get an answer to this. Can anyone out there help us with this?

Thanks,
Gary

<Sorry, no site specifics.
See Terms of Service [webmasterworld.com]>

[edited by: tedster at 5:45 pm (utc) on Mar. 19, 2006]

[carguy84]

[example.org...]

or if URLS get stripped by a mod, just add this to the end:
&BeneficiaryID=340721

Chip-

[edited by: tedster at 5:46 pm (utc) on Mar. 19, 2006]

[AIDSorg]

Thank you SO very much for taking the time to help us with this, Chip! It works like a charm. We're forever indebted to you.

Thanks again,
//Gary

[carguy84]

No prob, glad I could help.

[AIDSorg]

One more thing, if that's ok:

You said:

<<< .. or if URLS get stripped by a mod, just add this to the end: &BeneficiaryID=340721 >>>

Does this mean that I can also just append &BeneficiaryID=340721 to the end of the shorter URL? Would this shorter format work? I'd like to share this with their other projects, and would prefer to make it as simple as possible for them (rather than have them use a longer URL):

<SNIP>

I'm sure this isn't correct, but would something similar to this work just as well as the longer URL format?

Thanks again. This stands to help a lot of us, and I really do appreciate your advice.

//Gary

[edited by: engine at 6:53 pm (utc) on Mar. 20, 2006]
[edit reason] No URLs, thanks. See TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[txbakers]

leave out the ampersand and see if that works.

[carguy84]

When I tried it on the shorter URL it didn't work. When the shorter URL redirected to the longer one, it didn't carry over the querystring.

Chip-

[AIDSorg]

Hi again. Me again, Chip ...

Using what you have shown me, I also tried to preselect the "payment type" (as well as preselecting the payee) for the URL you have been helping me with. After selecting a payment option such as "Online Check (ACH)," the URL in the address bar only appends "#Payment" but has no value (type of payment). I have been unsuccessful thus far in trying to preselect these. I have experimented quite a bit using the guidance you have already offered me.

http://www.example.org/AutoGen/Simple/Donor.asp?ievent=149093&en=gqJHIVMBJ5LGKZPxF5JPJ1OFKhLKJ2OBLfIRJ2PMJuE&BeneficiaryID=34721#Payment

For the Online Check option (for example), I tried these:

&BeneficiaryID=34721#payment=ACH
&BeneficiaryID=34721#paymenttype=ACH
&BeneficiaryID=34721&paymentTypeselector=ACH

The four options are: Credit/Debit, Fax or Mail In form, Online Check, and Paypal.

None of these work, although I feel "THIS" close. Once I get this sorted out, we should be all set. My apologies for not noticing this other option sooner so I didn't have to bug you again. But again, your help would be most appreciated.

Thanks again!,
//Gary

[carguy84]

I don't think you're going to be able to do it with Payment. It's calling a JavaScript function to reload the page once an option is selected.

I don't know of any way to invoke that function from the querystring unfortunately. But if it was going to work like the other one, you'd just have to add:

PaymentTypeSelector=ACH

to the end of the URL.

Chip-