Re: User Defined Forms

From: Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:20:52 +0000
Subject: Re: User Defined Forms
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:01:48 +0100, Shaun <shaunthornburgh@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am creating a site where users record details of their clients and record > their progress. The whole point of the system is to reduce the amount of > paper work and store everything online. Like project management? Know about Dotproject and it's many plugins and add-ons? http://www.dotproject.net/ > The problem here is that each user will have their own forms to fill in on > their clients, some will record different data to others and some will have > more forms than others. Therefore I believe I am correct in saying this > would be impossible to store in a database as each user would require their Anything can be stored in a database. You can have tables like: forms, users, and fields. forms relate to users, and fields relate to forms. > own fields etc. One other solution I have thought of is to have each user > create a set of PDF forms when they sign up and each time they fill one in > they upload it to the server for storage. > > I would be most grateful for anyone's input on this before I dive in head > first! -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/

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