# Passing value from input field to query in Swish

**URL:** https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/passing-value-from-input-field-to-query-in-swish/715
**Category:** Help!
**Created:** [May 23, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/passing-value-from-input-field-to-query-in-swish/715 "2019-05-23T18:42:17Z")
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### Author: ![JCR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@JCR](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/u/JCR)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/passing-value-from-input-field-to-query-in-swish/715/1 "2019-05-23T18:42:17Z")

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Hi!

I have been trying forever to pass the value from a HTML form to a query in swish. [Here](https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/Javatest24.swinb) is my swish notebook. When somebody enters e.g. `bart` i want the query to return `12`. What happens, however, is that i just get `false`.

Could anyone take a quick look?

Kinds regards, JCR

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### Author: ![jan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/swi-prolog.discourse.group/jan/32/4_2.png) [@jan](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/u/jan)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 7:05am UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/passing-value-from-input-field-to-query-in-swish/715/2 "2019-05-24T07:05:00Z")

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Fixed 🙂 Query parameters are strings rather than atoms. See notebook.

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### Author: ![JCR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@JCR](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/u/JCR)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 11:53am UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/passing-value-from-input-field-to-query-in-swish/715/3 "2019-05-24T11:53:04Z")

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Thanks Jan! Again 🙂