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dpiasta
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September 2, 2008
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Creating a form for offline

  • September 2, 2008
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Been searching for years for a developer who can assist with a unique situation where we require an html application to submit form data in a remote location where web access is not possible. Any suggestions would be welcomed. We have the pages set up and the form ready to go but are unsure as to how to go about sending the data to either a temporary mail message or an excel spreadsheet. It seems so simple but we are having a heck of a time trying to figure this out.
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Inspiring
September 2, 2008
How are you transporting the form without web access? Are you networked but
have e-mail only, or does someone have to sneaker-net this on removable
media to a networked computer? Where is the form being submitted to?

This shouldn't be too hard to solve if you can answer these questions.

Steve

"dpiasta" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Been searching for years for a developer who can assist with a unique
> situation
> where we require an html application to submit form data in a remote
> location
> where web access is not possible. Any suggestions would be welcomed. We
> have
> the pages set up and the form ready to go but are unsure as to how to go
> about
> sending the data to either a temporary mail message or an excel
> spreadsheet. It
> seems so simple but we are having a heck of a time trying to figure this
> out.
>


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Newsgroup_User
Inspiring
September 4, 2008
You could go the "local web with forms" route that Dooza suggested, or you
could just use Excel on the laptop, if that is where the data is going to
end up anyway. You can set up a data entry form in Excel to make data
collection easier.

I'm thinking that the uploaded Excel file on the central server could be
linked to by the master Excel file, so that any changes are automatically
picked up.

Example: You send out four laptops, one to each Sales region. The
representatives collect information via an Excel application using the data
entry form.

At the end of each day, the representatives return to their hotels and
upload the daily data file to the central web server using predefined file
names, replacing the previous posting.

Back at home base, someone runs the master Excel spreadsheet, which has
links to each of the four regional spreadsheets. The master file is then
saved and processed as necessary.

As I said, there are many ways to do this, and they don't all have to
involve a lot of web programming. You could use this approach with e-mail if
needed.

HTH

Steve

"dpiasta" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Basically this is the scoop. We gather form information in remote regions
> that
> do not have internet access.
> The form is on a laptop that has complete internet capabilities but at the
> time the form is being used it has no access to the internet. So,
> basically the
> internet access is temporary. We are totally flexible as to how the form
> info
> is gathered. Ultimately each entry will be appended to a larger excel
> spreadsheet (or equivalent). Any ideas?
>
>
>


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