Please help with redirecting files in Web Page using Publisher 2003

[Bill]

Could someone please help me with the following:

I'm trying to do is redirect a "Submitted" form that a users would fill out
in a Web page (by the way the web page was published using MS Publisher
2003),
onto a folder either on the Web Server or another Server on the same
network. This is needed so that the administrator (the person who will be
receiving the form) can go to a folder on the network and retrieve them.

My question is, within the design view of Publisher 2003 (.PUB), there is a
"Submit" button that has been created. And in Publisher (design view) you
can go into the Command Button property of the "Submit" button then go to
Form Properties and either;

1. Send the data in a file on my Web Server
2. Send data to me in email
3. Use a program from my ISP

These are the choices you have, what I would like to do is choice (1) "Send
the data in a file on my Web Server".

Back to the question, how do I do that? Do I need to create a Server Side
Script for this operation?

I tried to put in a UNC to point to the folder on the Web server but it
didn't like that.

Any direction you can give me on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
William

 

[David Bartosik]

This post reads very familiar, I believe I have previously recommended that
Microsoft InfoPath would be the solution for your requirements.
If a web page solution is preferred then the best experience will be to
complete and submit InfoPath forms within Microsoft SharePoint.
Outside of that the next best thing is a ASP.Net page that loads the form
data to SQL Server or an Access database.
Either InfoPath or ASP.Net will provide data validation and confirmation not
possible in Publisher. The latter being a poor choice for your project.
But to answer the question on a data file... simply click the drop down on
the file type and select one, and in the box above that input the name you
want the file to have. The most common file type for data is comma delimited
(.csv) so you should select that option and then input a file name (for
example "mydata.csv). The end result is that the FP Server Extensions will
create that file (locally) and write the form submission data to that file.
It would look like this ...
formfield1, formfield2, formfield3, formfield4
someone would then have to access the server and pick up that file.
To use the data a csv file can be loaded into Excel or any database.