Creating trully dynamic forms on the fly- brainstorming

[lizok]

Hello all.
Maybe you tell me that this can't be done in CF, but i hope it can.

here is my dilemma:

I need a way to create trully dynamic forms online (such that a non-programmer can do it). For example: pick items you wanted inluded on the forms such as radio buttons, checkboxes, textareas. assing cations to them, define how you want them assligned on the form. click submit buttons and huray: here is the form that the user can complete that it can be saved to DB and then retrieved and fields populated.

can anyone gime any idea on how (if possible at all) to do it? use PDF forms? but then how to save dynamic fields and retrieve them later?

i welcome any ideas


thank you
liz

 

[philhege]

You can do object placement with Javascript. See

http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/drag-n-drop.html

for an example. It should be a short leap to capture the final image positions and store them to a DB, and then... well, I hope you get the picture.

Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK

http://www.iimak.com

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[lizok]

Actually what i was looking for is saving data from those objects/ kets say i place checkboxes (lets say 8 of them) , i'd need to capture those values in place them into db. and then repopulate tha form with that data.

i thought maybe PDF forms and then dump data to database?