surveys - need help!

[jay]

Hi - i do consumer research and was looking to use infopath to take notes
during interviews. in the type of research we do, we ask qualitative
(open-ended) and quantitative (numerical ratings) questions. at first glance,
infopath seems like it could do this.

example: - 10 research interviews, each person completes same interview. i'd
like to have the forms compiled automatically behind the scenes and also be
able to create a general type of template that i can re-use (e.g. a block of
5 questions that we might always want to use).

i am NOT a programmer/developer.

is there an EASY way to automate this or to do this? seems like there would
be, but honestly i can' tfigure it out. and if not, are infopath developers
available for hire?

 

[Adam Harding]

I could knock you something up fairly easily using an MS Access back end, and
linking in tables with fields from the database. You could use secondary
databases to link into the form to supply the detail for the lists, ie 1 to
10 to save you retyping it and any general answers could be populated this
way too. To be honest though with a bit of pererverance ie a month or two
you could do one yourself.

 

[jay]

how much would something like this cost?

I could knock you something up fairly easily using an MS Access back end, and
linking in tables with fields from the database. You could use secondary
databases to link into the form to supply the detail for the lists, ie 1 to
10 to save you retyping it and any general answers could be populated this
way too. To be honest though with a bit of pererverance ie a month or two
you could do one yourself.

 

[Adam Harding]

Depends on time involved and level of design involved, probably take me 1 or
2 days for first draft, 1 day to finish off. I am no professional developer
and as this is fairly simple i would be not too expensive. Based in UK, but
could easily swap forms over email. Reply with your email address, protected
in some way and we'll move on from there.