Looking for online word forms solution

[Phillip]

I am looking for a solution that will enable me to allow a user to fill
form fields on a word document posted online and receive an email with
the completed form attached. For example, I would post a real estate
form online and allow the user to enter their name and address, then
click a button and receive the word document that has the values that
they entered into the form fields for name and address.

I briefly looked at Office Live, but this does not appear to have the
functionality that I need.

Do you know of any existing solutions for this? If not, can you point me
in the right direction for developing a custom solution to accomplish this?

All help will be appreciated,
P

 

[Jonathan West]

I am looking for a solution that will enable me to allow a user to fill
form fields on a word document posted online and receive an email with the
completed form attached. For example, I would post a real estate form
online and allow the user to enter their name and address, then click a
button and receive the word document that has the values that they entered
into the form fields for name and address.

I briefly looked at Office Live, but this does not appear to have the
functionality that I need.

Do you know of any existing solutions for this? If not, can you point me
in the right direction for developing a custom solution to accomplish
this?

All help will be appreciated,
P

if you're creating a form for use online, then I suggest you use the forms
features that are available as part of HTML and use an HTML editor to create
your form.

 

[Phillip]

if you're creating a form for use online, then I suggest you use the forms
features that are available as part of HTML and use an HTML editor to create
your form.

Thanks for the response, but that is not what I am looking for. I am
more looking for a way to dynamically generate word docs from what the
users input. I have this part figured out, but I cannot figure out the
presentation layer. Ideally, this would be the word doc displayed in a
browser window where the user can fill in the blanks (the form fields).

I would then take this data and use it to generate a new word doc that
had the blanks filled in.

Any ideas on the presentation layer side of this?

Thanks again,
P

 

[Jonathan West]

Thanks for the response, but that is not what I am looking for. I am more
looking for a way to dynamically generate word docs from what the users
input. I have this part figured out, but I cannot figure out the
presentation layer. Ideally, this would be the word doc displayed in a
browser window where the user can fill in the blanks (the form fields).

I would then take this data and use it to generate a new word doc that had
the blanks filled in.

Any ideas on the presentation layer side of this?

It seems from your description that there are two parts to your problem, and
I'm a little confused as to which you need help with. As I understand it,
the two parts are

1. Getting the user to input the data into some kind of form.

2. Using the data to dynamically generate Word documents.

Do I have that right? If so, what bit of this are you looking for help with?

 

[Phillip]

It seems from your description that there are two parts to your problem, and
I'm a little confused as to which you need help with. As I understand it,
the two parts are

1. Getting the user to input the data into some kind of form.

2. Using the data to dynamically generate Word documents.

Do I have that right? If so, what bit of this are you looking for help with?

I am looking for help on #1. What I would like to do is to display a
word document in the user's browser window and let them enter data on
that; basically a word document that had form fields (Developer tab ->
legacy forms->text form field) where the user can enter data.

The reason that I am trying to use this instead of a traditional web
form is because the client already has their word documents created and
may add more in the future.

Hope this answered your question and thanks again for the help,

P

 

[Jonathan West]

I am looking for help on #1.

That is what I originally thought

What I would like to do is to display a word document in the user's
browser window and let them enter data on that; basically a word document
that had form fields (Developer tab -> legacy forms->text form field)
where the user can enter data.

The reason that I am trying to use this instead of a traditional web form
is because the client already has their word documents created and may add
more in the future.

Hope this answered your question and thanks again for the help,

If you display a Word document in browser, what happens is that the document
is downloaded to the local PC, and the form is filled in locally. The data
in it never goes back anywhere near the webserver.