I thought IWP would make a good way to do a quick online survey, but IWP is just tooo good and gives users so much more than they need... How can one set up IWP to just act like a dumb container and allow guests to add one record and not view others...

Guess IWP was not set up for this. Any ideas appreciated

Hide and lock the status area, this will prevent the user from navigating records. You'll have to add buttons to the layout so the user can perform necessary functions.

I envision that the user would log in and automatically get a new record. A button saying something like "Submit" woud trigger a script that validates the data, commits the record, and send the user to another layout or logs the user off.

How can you be sure that a user will not submit the survey several times? If you have a closed survey population, it might be manageable with IWP by giving tickets that expire to your users. But if the population is open, it's much more difficult, and you have to rely on cookies, IP address checking, sessions and other mechanisms. Then you have to do change to CWP. Or use a commercial software (do a Google search on online survey software).

(I did once program a survey with FMU 6/CDML).

Thanks for the approach. I'll try to implement it.

I understand about the issue of repeated surveys and other litter associated with such unmanaged survey tools but in this case it is not so important...

I usually do an email validation routine in combo with IP address for my WebObjects solutions but this is my first foray into FieMaker...