Web users entering data

[Joe B]

I want to be able to allow a number of users to enter data from remote
locations via my web page and have this data saved on an ongoing basis.
I have an Excel file that has the data format. Is publishing the Excel file
the easiest, quickest for users way of capturing this ongoing database or is
there a better method please ?

 

[Ronx]

Using Excel may be the hard way. The easiest method is to use an
Access database. See FrontPage help with regard to Database Interface
Wizard, and Database Results Wizard.

These require that you are hosted on a Windows server, running
FrontPage extensions, and supports Access and ASP.

 

[Joe B]

Is there a simple method for collecting web users data on a host that does
not support ASP ? The data I need to capture is very basic text.
Thanks
Joe.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

If the site has the just FP SE save the results to a text file (csv tab delimited) from a form




| Is there a simple method for collecting web users data on a host that does
| not support ASP ? The data I need to capture is very basic text.
| Thanks
| Joe.
|
| "Ronx" wrote:
|
| > Using Excel may be the hard way. The easiest method is to use an
| > Access database. See FrontPage help with regard to Database Interface
| > Wizard, and Database Results Wizard.
| >
| > These require that you are hosted on a Windows server, running
| > FrontPage extensions, and supports Access and ASP.
| > --
| > Ron Symonds
| > Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
| > Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
| >
| > | > >I want to be able to allow a number of users to enter data from
| > >remote
| > > locations via my web page and have this data saved on an ongoing
| > > basis.
| > > I have an Excel file that has the data format. Is publishing the
| > > Excel file
| > > the easiest, quickest for users way of capturing this ongoing
| > > database or is
| > > there a better method please ?
| >
| >
| >

 

[Ronx]

You need a host that supports either FrontPage extensions, or a server
side scripting technology such as ASP, PHP,Perl/CGI etc.
For a simple text file (comma or tab delimited so it can be imported
into Excel) the FP extensions are sufficient. Just create a form in
FrontPage and set the form properties to send the results to a text
file in the _private folder.

 

[Joe B]

Will the data that is entered / stored to the text file be displayed, i.e. I
woud like this data to be visible on the web site and be able to be added to
by users ?
Thanks Joe.

 

[Ronx]

No. For that you need a database solution.