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I am looking at expanding a web/database app. The scenario is users go
online to fill out forms which are reports and the info of course goes into
the database. The issue here is that while this reporting by the user
should happen daily, because of the industry I am in, a user cant always do
this because they are so remote, so they may get to a net connection every
few days. My question is, how could a user still do their reports daily but
locally on their harddrive, and then when they are able to get to a net
connection, upload that info to the web app/database without having to
re-enter all of the info?

I am thinking of the user maybe having templates on their PC, then having
their files "sync" with the website. Is this possible and how hard is it to
accomplish this task? You could think of it in the same sense as online
banking, where some of them are compatible with Quickbooks?? and you can
press a button to download all of your account info to the right places
within the quicken software. This would be opposite, the user would be
uploading into the right fields on the web all automatically.

This is certainly one to tickle the brain a little, or maybe just
mine....lol

Any suggestions, solutions, etc are appreciated.
Thanks
Nov 18 '05 #1
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Perhaps a windows forms application may be a better front end for
disconnected users. Then when they are connected the application could
upload the data to a web service.

Here's more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://Steve.Orr.net
Hire top-notch developers at http://www.able-consulting.com

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I am looking at expanding a web/database app. The scenario is users go
online to fill out forms which are reports and the info of course goes into the database. The issue here is that while this reporting by the user
should happen daily, because of the industry I am in, a user cant always do this because they are so remote, so they may get to a net connection every
few days. My question is, how could a user still do their reports daily but locally on their harddrive, and then when they are able to get to a net
connection, upload that info to the web app/database without having to
re-enter all of the info?

I am thinking of the user maybe having templates on their PC, then having
their files "sync" with the website. Is this possible and how hard is it to accomplish this task? You could think of it in the same sense as online
banking, where some of them are compatible with Quickbooks?? and you can
press a button to download all of your account info to the right places
within the quicken software. This would be opposite, the user would be
uploading into the right fields on the web all automatically.

This is certainly one to tickle the brain a little, or maybe just
mine....lol

Any suggestions, solutions, etc are appreciated.
Thanks

Nov 18 '05 #2

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