Ted, Thanks for the info - (also to to Derek Andelin for your response!) I was kind of afraid of that... They really want to continue using their ACT DB as the primary data source & were hoping to import/export the PDF data directly - e.g: automatically populate a selected form from currently-displayed contact info, etc. It is not necessary to web-enable it at this time, but we don't want to box them in. I'm still researching the possibilities here, so if anyone else has any thoughts, please chime in!
Thx again.
Beth
________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ted Daniels
Sent: Tue 1/6/2004 7:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PDF-Forms] PDF Forms integration with ACT! DB
Beth:
The easy way is to dump the data from ACT into an ODBC database, then use the FDF file
format to set up a template into which the database field variables can be used to
replace the "markers" you set in the FDF file.
I think ACT can export into Excel or Access. Then use Active Server Pages, Cold
Fusion, PHP if you want to do this thorugh a browser, or similar to read data from
Access, convolve it through the FDF template into PDF format forms. You can keep all
the data in the database, and just produce the PDF forms as and when you need them -
either batch process or in response to a user query
Ted Daniels
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Beth Horwath
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PDF-Forms] PDF Forms integration with ACT! DB
Hello,
Has anyone done any integration with data exchange between PDF forms and ACT!
databases (V 6.0).
We have a requirement for this for one of our customers & may need some
assistance to determine the best approach to accomplish the integration.
Thanks!
Beth
___________________________________________
Beth Horwath
beige technologies, L.L.C.
Tel (480) 777.8091
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<<winmail.dat>>
