Creating "Shopping Cart" like app with Powerpoint

[kbaritt]

I have been recently asked by my boss to create a power point
application that we can use with our customers.
The idea was that we would have a list of items available for sale. We
could show them to them and if they were interested in it we could
"Click" on a button that would trigger a back end action of storing
that Data in a word Doc.

For example

"In person Training" - Click Here
"Web Training" Click Here
"Self Lead Training" Click Here

When they Clicked they would get an invoice that Read

Invoice
1 - Web Training
2 - Self Lead Traing

I am looking at using the Action Settings and my thoughts I would have
to write some sort of script in the back end to do this, any one have
any ideas on how to do this?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

This can be done with scripting. If you go to my site
(http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/) and look at Example 7.9, it does
just what you want. It's a quiz example, but it could easily be adapted
to collect order information. You might also want to look in the "More
Tricks" section for first trick, which actually writes to a file (not a
Word file but a file that stores the information).

If I were to do this for your purpose, I would probably change things a
bit and use forms to collect the information, which a more natural
interface for entering the kind of information you want, but I don't have
an example like that.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/