Populate a control in a view w/ a user entered value frm previous

[Elridge]

I would like to implement the following functionality:

In view 1, I have a text box (call it Id_Number) and a submit button. When
the user enters a value in the text box and hits the submit button, the form
should query the db with the entered value and then switch to view 2. In the
case where there are no matches for the user entered value in the db, I would
like the form to autopopulate the Id_Number field on View 2 with the value
that was entered in View 1.

Is there a way to do the autopopulation of the Id_Number field in View 2
when the db does not return a matching value? Could someone please explain
or point me to some examples of this being?

Thanks very much,
Elridge