[FX.php List] Best Practices for Forms

[Jonathan Schwartz]

I suppose that there (at least) are two issues here. The first is 
dealing with the original intended question: if with too many fields, 
the URL gets so long that it will not work correctly.

The other issue is whether the form gets so long that the *user* 
doesn't work correctly, ;-)

If the form is divided up into multiple pages to relief both 
conditions, and the intent is to create a new record in FMP, what is 
best way to accomplish?   Do you:
	1) Pass the data from page to page and then issue the FMP New 
script? This wouldn't help the issue of too many fields, if that 
problem actually exists.
	2) Create the new FMP record on the first form page and then 
consider the rest of the page actions as edits?  In this case, I 
suppose that you have to toss incomplete records.

Jonathan

At 9:00 AM -0500 7/17/06, Bob Patin wrote:
>Jonathan,
>
>I haven't faced any limit to the # of fields that FileMaker will 
>deal with, but I have experienced "data overload" with many client 
>sites. These days, I always separate data into several forms so that 
>customers are less likely to make mistakes. I tend to design input 
>systems as wizards that we are used to with app installers; a little 
>more work, but much easier for the users online.
>
>Just my opinion, of course!
>
>>
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