Online Sign Up

[fksstechguy]

Is there a way to create a database that can have people access online to use it as a sign up tool for courses. So that the database would track how many people signed up in real time?

FKSStechguy

[Steve T.]

Hi, tech! Sure, that's what it's all about... web publishing information and accepting data/signups from users... all in real time. In FM6, you could web publish a database using Instant Web Publishing or Custom Web publishing, although you'll probably need to get FM6 Unlimited unless you only need to have a few people accessing the site. You can use FMU alone or you can integrate other technologies to use with it. With FMU, we host search engines, surveys, signups, and various other web forms and data is immediately accessible as soon as the web user presses the submit button.

The tracking portion could be done many ways... you could have an 'admin' web page that shows you a count everytime you visit/refresh the page, you can build a web counter to count signups, you could connect thru FM and just do a FIND, or you could script a FIND and count, or even create summary fields to count for you.. lots of options for lots of situations.

Good luck!

--ST