I'm writing contracts by hand along with itineraries that contain much of the same data. Is there a way to do the following...
web form that will fill the fields of my contract and outputs in .pdf format
button that gives the option to also output the data in the form of my itinerary layout in .pdf
save various details to a database.
what tutorials might be useful to me? what videos should i be watching to steer me down the right path?
Many thanks!
This looks very much like an application for a server-side form filling tool. The tool of choice would be FDFMerge by Appligent.
A typical workflow would be as follows:
• you have a web form where the user fills in the required information
• user submits the web form to your server where the data gets filled into a database
• selects are made in the database, bringing together the data for a specific document
• assemble the result of the selects into an FDF file
• the base form is filled with the data, using the above mentioned tool
• the filled document(s) is/are made available for the user
And that should do it.
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hi I am working on the fillable pdf in Salesforce, i have uploaded the pdf in the static resource in Salesforce , now need to handle the data to fill in it and download the file , can any suggestions to achieve it
Thanks in advance
There is no functionality in Apex to interact with fillable PDFs. While it's possible to interact with binary formats such as PDF in Apex, it's difficult, slow, and subject to the extensive limitations of the Salesforce governor limits. You'd have to implement this from scratch based on your knowledge of the PDF format.
You will likely have much more success either building PDF manipulation functionality in JavaScript on the front end, or calling out to an external service on Heroku or elsewhere that uses PDF libraries available in some other stack to do this work.
Salesforce does not support inputs on generated pdf via Visualforce
pages.
To achieve this functionality, you can create a form with all the
inputs that are required in the pdf.
Once the user fills in the information in the created form and submits it, generate the pdf with the filled information by the user.
Bonus: you can save the filled-in information as well by creating a record under the object for future reference (data is everything)
We are working on survey's using ODK, by creating xls files and transform it into forms, and then we collect data offline.
When employees comeback from the field, they upload data.
What we need now is that they work online from the field, so they can search a specific ID or name, and see the data existing before adding new data.
What I mean is that we need to let them search the database by specific field, and that is not available in odk.
We upload data to ONA then the data are cleaned on the laptop and the searches are done on the laptop too.
Is there a tool that do that process ?
As far as I know, the closest you can get with existing tools is this: https://help.ona.io/faq/filtered-datasets
If you use Enketo (webforms), when the source dataset is updated (via new submissions) the webform will also be automatically updated (may require page refresh and there will be a delay). You could use both offline-capable or online-only webforms with this reference to external data and query it with select_one_from_file, select_multiple_from_file (in XLSForm terminology), or with pulldata, or with regular XPath.
I'm looking for a way to create a search box in wordpress, where visitors can search a number from the database. Is this possible? I have several package numbers in my database. I want to give my visitors the ability to search for their package number and request the information that comes with the number.
What you want to do can be done.
I suggest a different approach than using wp-exec. (I just looked at wp-exec website, and that plugin was created for WordPress 1.5, which means it hasn't been updated in about 5 years).
The content you want to display exists entirely outside of WordPress. I suggest you use a custom page template - see
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates
In this case you would not use WordPress posts or pages or custom post types. On the custom page template you would write (or have written if you don't have the knowhow to do it yourself) PHP code to extract the info from the database and display it on a page.
For pages like that you would be using WordPress only as a container within which to display the results - they custom page would appear in the site Nav, The page of results would use the site's theme to display so it looks like the rest of the site.
But the code to display from the database would not use the WordPress loop. It would be PHP / MySQL data retrieval and display code.
I really doubt you will find a plugin that lets you display results from an external database, formatted the way you want them to appear. The reason is every external database is different, has different tables and table structures. And no two sites will want the external data visually displayed in the same way. So there is little generalization to encapsulate in a plugin as everyone wants it different.
I've created pages on some sites along the lines of what you want to do thus I know it can be done. But it requires writing custom code.
I need to create a voting system which will essentially consist of several forms each with a list of radio buttons, of which a single choice can be made. Submission of the form loads the next one, this will go on for about 10 pages, before finally sending the user to a generic data capture form where they will submit their credentials for inclusion in a prize draw.
Several approaches spring to mind:
Create a clone of the core poll module and modify it to achieve the required functionality
Modify the drupal quiz module to allow anonymous recording of votes (the fact that it doesn't is the only thing stopping me approaching it this way, it works almost exactly as I want it to otherwise)
Create something completely custom using the webform module.
I just wondered if anyone had come across this same problem/dilemma and could share any knowledge???
Can you accomplish this with a multi-page webform? You can build the webform by adding a "select options" field, followed by a "page break", then another "select options" field, and another "page break", etc, etc.
You can limit the select options field to 1 answer. Then when you want to gather their information, just add simple text fields at the end.
I am looking for some initial direction on this one because I cannot seem to find my way with it. Let me explain...
I am developing a website wherein a logged in site member (Joomla 1.6) can fill out a simple form and attach a pdf to be uploaded upon submission. The user then clicks the submit button and the page will refresh to a new and unique web page.
User Submits data on http://www.examplesite.com and then after submission a new web page is generated that is called http://www.examplesite.com/userSubmittedValue
This newly generated web page would come from a template that is specified by the administrator and, most important, it will display all of the information that the user submitted. Also, there would be a link to download the pdf they uploaded. The user could then view a list of all the pages they have created in this manner via their profile.
I have seen this all over, but I am at a loss for how to generate this. Any help is much appreciated.
This is not something you will be able to easily do or get a detailed answer for here. If you just wanted to do the submission form with a thank you page that shows the data submitted you could use any number of form wizard type extensions - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/contacts-and-feedback/forms
If you just needed a way for users to upload PDfs and have access to them you could use one of the file management extensions that offer front end upload features - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-a-documentation/downloads
If the additional data that is being submitted is simply data related to the file - title, description, etc then one of the file download components should work fine for you. The choices are limited in 1.6 at this time though so you might have to go with 1.5 to get the extension that works best for your needs.
So this probably isn't the best way to do it if your using Joomla but it just might help.
I would use PHP and inside of you're directory have a file like "template.html". Then I would create some php to handle the task of....
Opening "template.html"
Finding and replacing the values that the user passed you
Save the "template.html" under a new name (userSubmittedValue.html)
Again, I never really use Joomla. If you were to try this I'd suggest checking out php's file system functions (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php).
Hope this helps a bit.