Noel,
I agree with Eric. The security you can have with Filemaker is very limited. The
main advantage with FMP is all of the desktop-style tools you get to work with (for
printing, designing reports, building GUI's, etc.) But since this just sounds like a
simple enter-via-form-and-submit, I would think this is the kind of thing you might
want to build with an SQL back-end (mySQL, PostGre, etc.) and a server-side middle
(PHP, perl, etc.). (All of the software mentioned so far is Open Source - i.e., free
- although their are commercial alternatives to all of it too.) From the sounds of
it, I would think that an experienced dynamic-website builder could take care of this
in no time flat. And they could build in much better security.
HTH,
Matt
At 02:12 PM 9/8/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Noel,
>
>If making a database available over the web to teachers, you should also
>carefully consider your security options. Particularly with sensitive data
>(grades & evaluations?) on a web site, it's very important to consider the
>security aspects of the databse.
>
>I'm totally unfamiliar with what may be built into FileMaker Pro. But,
>getting some good advice from someone experienced with the issue might be a
>very good idea -- and could be shared with other schools if they choose to
>go a similar route.
>
>Regards,
>
>Eric Johnson
>Colorado Environmental Coalition
>
>
>At 08:05 AM 9/8/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>Our elementary school is conducting several reading assessment tests for
>>our 650 students grades Pre-K through 5th grade.
>>
>>We would like to enter this data into a master database.
>>
>>Teachers would like to have web access to enter data from home.
>>
>>Will ebase allow us to create a custom db for testing assessment data
>>entry, post and access this db from the web?
>>
>>We have FMPro 4.1. How does it come into play?
>>
>>Thanks for any info,
>>
>>Noel Baebler
>>Ginter Park Elementary
>>Richmond, Virginia
>>
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