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Data Connection

goslinc
Registered: Sep 25 2007
Posts: 114

I created a form in Designer (that comes loaded I guess with Professional 7.0) and bound my field on it to a microsoft database. I only bound the fields because I thought I had to do that, so users when completing the form, would be sending an xml file back to me that I could just import and append into my existing database table.

This works fine for me at work, but I had an outside user today (outside our network) who is using Professional 8.0 tell me that she received a error regarding data connection security.

My intent with the form was that they complete it from our web page, and hit the submit button I put on the form, to email the attached xml file to me. That should not cause security issues at my end on our server should it?

gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
Can the user connect to the database?

Or is the database on a public accessible web server?

George Kaiser

goslinc
Registered: Sep 25 2007
Posts: 114
No, but the intent is not to have the user feed directly into my database, though.

User completes the form from the web site, hits submit button, and an xml file
(like the one attached) comes to me. From there, I import
the individual xml file directly into my access database.
So for each xml file being received, say 10-15 in a day, I
do an import for EACH, but they EACH import into my access
table.

I've completed this form off-site, at the local library, and
been able to open without error, and I can even from my
desktop here at work, perform the file, save as once I
complete the form.