Rails - Jan 2011 - Back link implementation question/problem

Implementation question:

I''m developing an app that does the following:

1. Presents a query screen.

2. In response to the user-entered data on the query screen, the app
queries the database and returns a list of the matching records with a
"Show" link associated with each record in the list.

3. When the user clicks the Show link for one the the items in the
list, a detail view is presented, with an ''edit'' link and
''back'' link.

4. If the user clicks the ''back'' link, the app receives the
request as
a query screen response but without any of the user-entered data
associated with a query request. Consequently, the resultant view has
no list of matching records.

What I want to happen is the view to contain the original list (as in
#2 above).

I''m lost at how to do this. Is there a way to "save" the
user-entered
data to reissue the query? Can the data be somehow "stored" in the
list view html, so it''s returned when the back link is clicked?

Thanks,
Jeff

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On Jan 11, 8:58 pm, Jeff
<fjeffschm...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Implementation question:
>
> 4. If the user clicks the ''back'' link, the app receives
the request as
> a query screen response but without any of the user-entered data
> associated with a query request. Consequently, the resultant view has
> no list of matching records.
>
> What I want to happen is the view to contain the original list (as in
> #2 above).
>
> I''m lost at how to do this. Is there a way to "save" the
user-entered
> data to reissue the query? Can the data be somehow "stored" in
the
> list view html, so it''s returned when the back link is clicked?
>
Is your search form posting rather than getting? Change it from a post
to a get will probably fix things (since search parameters will then
be part of url) and is probably semantically better too.

Fred
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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