Hi all,

I have quite an interesting problem that I need to solve. I'm working
for a school that wants to automate the creation of Student Reports. The
requirements are:

A) A teacher logs into the current CF intranet system and downloads a
dynamically generated template file (word, excel, etc?) which includes
their current class/student information. They can then go away and fill
out the grades/comments on their notebook PC.

B) Once they have finished filling out each student's report results
they log back into the system and upload this completed file back onto
the server.

C) The data then needs to be fed back into the SQL database (preferably
automatically).

D) Getting the teachers to fill in their reports online is not an
option. 

My main stumbling block at the moment is figuring out what type of file
this can be? Currently, the teachers are given manually generated
Filemaker Pro files (one for each class) which they fill out and then
place into a folder on the network. From this point they are made into
one huge Filemaker Pro file and inserted into SQL Server through a DTS
package. As an added bonus the template file also has to look/behave as
similar as possible to the current Filemaker files they fill out (which
contain things like multiple choice drop boxes) so it wont require the
teachers to be re-trained.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers,
Leon.


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