opening a form

[glenn duncan]

i know nothing about javascript, but i'm told i need it.
we are developing an app for the web, using lotus domino 6.0.
on our forms, we have a subform to display the sidelinks.
(Server Side Includes)
a typical link defined on the SSI document would be:

&nbsp;&nbsp;<ahref="/MYdb.nsf/formABC?OpenForm"title="place order">Place Order</a><br>

for one of the sidelinks, i need to open a form, and pass to that form the value in a text field on the currently open form (contract number).
i was told i need to use javascript to read the current value of the field, then use the window.open method to open the form.
i have no idea how.
how would i modify the above code to do this??

[Jona]

If I caught that at all... You have a page with a form on it, right? You want to open a new window with a form on it, too. Then you want the value of a text field in the new window to be passed back to the main window with the first form in it?