First off, I'd suggest you subscribe to the cf-talk list for this type of
stuff as it's more an application level issue than systems.
For a simple solution, check out WDDX. The api is fully integrated inside CF
and there is a simple VB api available at http://www.wddx.org
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jason.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: Need advice on shuttling data between web site and desktop apps
> Brian LaPlante asked if I'm "concerned that going 100% web will leave at
the
> mercy of offering less client side functionality". Hit the nail on the
head.
> I am used to having a lot of control of my MS Access forms and GU
interface.
> I checked out your examples. Very cool. How was that accomplished and
how
> difficult was it?
>
> There are definitely cases though where I will absolutely need local apps.
> For one particular project I mainly need to download form info and get
into
> the local app as simply as possible. I'm condiering some system whereby I
> could, at the push of a button on a web page or perhaps on a schedule
> download the most recent records. I would probably grab the whole days
worth
> of adds and filter out the duplication at the desktop level. I'm
considering
> something like ...
> *at the click of a button delete the contents of a table dedicated to
> containing extract data
> * insert all the records created that day
> * figure out some way of emailing that table as an attachment in an email
> or possibly including it in the body formatted as delimitted ascii.
> *I still need to figure out how to then automatically retrieve the email
on a
> regular basis and get the data into access.
>
> Thanks for the advice so far
>
> Andrew Shaffer
> PC-FM, Inc.
>
>
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