I would just convince him that it should be web based and that it's absolutely silly to go in any other direction, and that you can do the entire project in ColdFusion in about 14 seconds because ColdFusion can do anything on Earth.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Scott Spurlock <[email protected]>wrote: > > I apologize in advance since this isn't a CF question, but I'm desperate > and hoping this is at least an Adobe question. A client of mine wants to > create a form for users to fill out electronically. He then wants to take > their responses (attached via email) and upload the data to an Access 2007 > database. He absolutely does not want this to be web-based. He ideally > wanted me to create an interactive form in PDF. I thought, "Sure, no > problem." The problems I'm running into? Importing PDF data into Access > appears to involve an extra step (converting the PDF to text or XML or > Excel) which he/the client would have to do (since he's the one getting the > returned forms). Worse is that he wants some multi-select drop-down lists > in the form and I'm not seeing a way to do this in a PDF (I've played around > with both Acrobat Pro and LiveCycle Designer). And without VBA skills I > don't have, I'm not even seeing how to do this in an Excel or Word > form. I'm getting stuck and turn to you kind sirs for your advice. How > would you do this? > > > Tha > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346214 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
