Online Leave Form in School District

[Nancy Spoolman]

Hi everyone!

 

I work for a school district and I am recreating our leave form using Filemaker Pro 11. I have used Filemaker for a number of years and use relational databases. Once I get the form online, I want to try to script trigger it to email a copy of the form to the staff member who is requesting leave when their supervisor OK's it. This is the first time I have even used script triggers. 

 

As I was looking through the script categories, I set it to web publishing so I could see what I could use  if I were to use a script. It looks as if you cannot do any Save as, etc. Is there a work-around where you can capture the form and email it? I read some of the container info, but if you are filling out the form via a browser, I am getting the impression you cannot do this.

 

Any help would be soooo appreciated.

 

Nancy S.

 

 

[MartieH]

if your users will be using a browser to fill out the form, you need to have a mechanism for the browser to 'talk' to your database. Typically, this is done w/php. If you don't know php and don't want to take the time to learn in, there is a nice program - FMStudio that will work w/Dreamweaver and will do the coding for you. It will create a form and will also send an email using the email module. I use it and it has also helped me learn a little php coding along the way. www.fmwebschool.com 

 

 

hth,

Martie

[Nancy Spoolman]

Thanks for the info. We work with Word Press, but one of the guys knows PHP. So, if we get it on the server, we should be able to come up with something. I'm just waiting to get the Filemaker Server up and running.

 

Thanks again!

 

Nanc