Electronic Forms

[caffrey]

School has decided again to look at converting our old paper based form system into an electronic system. e.g. forms for events and caretaker requests etc. I've been tasked to look at this a few times and have produced solutions but they never caught on (custom VB.net application). I've also tried Google Forms but the data representation is poor - they need emails sending to the relevant parties depending what's been filled in they really didn't like just looking at a spreadsheet. We now need a web based solution because of the introduction of iPads etc. - before I run off and brush off my old .asp skills, is there a preferably free solution out there that can do this ?

[unixman_again]

I just roll our own with a php script writing to a mysql database. Once the first one had been written, it doesn't take long to copy & mod it for whatever questions they want asking.

[caffrey]

I'm not so good with PHP unfortunately, well not good enough for forms especially for these as there will be probably if, then else statements.

[localzuk]

Sharepoint with Access Services and Access would do this for you. https://support.office.com/en-za/article/Build-an-Access-database-to-share-on-the-Web-cca08e35-8e51-45ce-9269-8942b0deab26?ui=en-US&rs=en-ZA&ad=ZA

[caffrey]

I'll have a read thanks