A general question.

[Eric]

Maybe this is not the right place to put this question
but I will try anyway. I have been asked to investigate
the following: management has asked me to look for a way
to develop some sort of document, html, word, other..
that will allow users who are not connected to our LAN to
enter a procurement request. The procurement request
would then be sent to a public folder and then the
variables in the document should be read and transfered
to an ACCCESS database. I know ths sounds almost
impossible to do but this would be an enormous
achievement it this would be possible. Thanks for any
help or directions.

Eric

 

[MacDermott]

If there's no LAN, how are users going to get this request to the public
folder?
Internet?
E-mail?

 

[Todd Shillam]

Eric,

The computers that are off-line, at some point, would need to connect to the
LAN to upload data. Otherwise, how is the data going to traverse (go)
anywhere? Or the data from the off-line computers would need to be saved to
some kind of removable storage.

If you are talking about something like an off-line laptop that eventually
connects to the LAN. Yes, you can upload data directly into an Access
program.

Best regards,

Todd