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Questionnaire via email through flash

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mattpearcey

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Mar 7, 2001
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I am totally new to Flash, so i am just making some general enquiries as to its caperbilities. I need to conduct an email survey by sending out an email to various people, of whom which i do not know what email software they are using, containing a exe or peice of software that they can open and run through the questions put forward - send back and they are easily outputted to excel or acces or word or something. Does anyone have any ideas as to whether Flash can do this, if so, where would be the best place to start? Any advice would be gratefully recieved Thank you for your help already.

Matt Pearcey
 
The easiest thing to do would be to have the questionnaire on a website. Mail out a link to this site rather than attaching a file to your email - this means that you don't have any platform or operating system issues to worry about.

The site would pick up the replies to the questions in input text boxes and, using loadVariables();, could output these values to an Access database backend.
 
Thanks for this advice. I will do this in the future, but unfortunately cannot do that at present. But i will use this method. Thank you Thank you for your help already.

Matt Pearcey
 
If you're stuck with sending something out you could publish the Flash movie as a projector which is a self contained .exe and doesn't require the Flash player to be installed on the user's machine. There are mac and windows versions of this, but how you determine which one to send to someone would be tricky - the files are really large compared to standard .swf sizes and sending both would be a considerable download.
 
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