HTML Forms

[Cruiter2204]

Can Act collect data through HTML web forms that are submitted. I am looking to create online job application and want to know if ACT can gather this data and then populate back into PDF forms.

Would welcome any suggestions or programmers that are familiar with web forms and Act .

 

[Melagan]

Short answer: I don't know of any way that ACT 2007 Standard can do that on its own. Maybe ACT 2007 For Web?

Long answer: I'm sure it could if you are highly experienced in SQL Server and ASP.NET but that approch would require a lot of custom coding. You'd have to create your web form in ASP.NET and use ADO.NET to get the data from the Webform to the ACT database (which is run on SQL Server 2005 Express). That is one idea, anyway.

~Melagan
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"It's never too late to become what you might have been.

 

[GLComputing]

There are many ways to do the bringing in of data from a web form to ACT!, I usually write them to a CSV file and then batch them into ACT! with itImport because the options in the product gives you much more power and contol over the data than any other method. Another option is to email them to an account and use one of the tools that reads the email and adds the data to ACT! from

http://www.egrabber.com

To write a PDF, you'd need to write a standard document to Adobe Acrobat

Regards,
Mike Lazarus
ACT! Evangelist
GL Computing, Aust

http://www.GLComputing.com.au

 

[Cruiter2204]

Thanks all,