Survey - Should I use DAP 1

[hext2003]

I need to post a survey on the internet and do calculation on the results. I was thinking of doing this with Access and a DAP. Is this a good idea? or would you recommend another way. In years past they have filled out hardcopies and mailed them. I am trying to bring this into a more automated process.

Is there a way to put a DAP out there so they can only see their own survey? and noone elses? and only fill out one survey?

any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

thank you!

 

[KornGeek]

I've recently been playing around with

http://www.surveymonkey.com

which is a website based around the idea of doing online surveys. They are fairly reasonably priced, and you can download your results in a spreadsheet format, which you can then bring into Access. It supports much (if not all) of the functionality you mentioned.

There are some limitations to it, but generally speaking, it seems pretty good for the money. (Keep in mind, your time spend developing, testing, fixing an Access-based solution has a cost also.)

 

[fneily]

If you use a DAP, just have a "login" screen where they type in their login which then hyperlinks to their survey. Of course, if you have 500 different surveys, this is impractical. Can't you standardize the survey so everyone has the same questions?
You can also make a survey in PowerPoint and place it on the net. You can have the answers go into a text file which can then be placed in Excel to analyze with a pivot table.

 

[hext2003]

Thank you KornGeek - Oh My did this save TONS of time!

Survey Monkey will work great for our needs.

Thank you thank you and
THANK YOU!

 

[KornGeek]

I'm glad it works for you. I don't care for their reporting capabilities, but after exporting and cleaning up the data a bit, I pulled it into Access, where I could do whatever I needed with it.