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sturne
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From: Rhinelander, WI 54501
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Finishing Data Entry Later - 3/9/2001 16:55:00
I have a form linked to an Access database. I would like the user be able to be able to enter data on one day and finish the form several days or weeks later without starting over, but displaying his already entered data. Can this be done and how? Any help is greatly appreciated! (There are four key fields that user would have to use to pull which record he wants to add to)
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Elecia
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From: orlando
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RE: Finishing Data Entry Later - 3/9/2001 19:53:00
If there isn't a large amount of data to store you could look into using cookies. But then all of your users have to have their browsers set to allow cookies and you would have to hope that the more industrious and tidy users don't delete the cookies before they return to your site to complete the form.I suppose that you could allow users to save the fields they have completed back to the database and then make provisions to allow them to retrieve these partial records when they return. I would strongly advise against this however. This type of practice is an open invitation to a database full of trash not to mention that you would have to allow null values for every field and you wouldn't be able to create any kind of valuable index. This makes for a slow and poorly managed database. I wish I had something more constructive to tell you.
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Spooky
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Joined: 11/11/1998
From: Middle Earth
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RE: Finishing Data Entry Later - 3/9/2001 22:16:00
I could only suggest the same, you need to persist the data somehow, and saving the record somewhere is the only way. Be it cookies, text files or the database.------------------
Spooky
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