Hello

I have an idea of what I want to do, but I'm not entirely sure how to do it,
whether it's a practical or good idea and which components to use. Maybe
someone here can point me in the right direction.

OK the objective is to invite our customers to examine the data we hold on
their company and their company's products, make alterations (add, change,
remove) and send it back to us for checking and submission to our database.

I have generated an xml document for each customer which I have saved into a
field in an SQL server table. I have created an xsl which lets me send a
plain text formatted version to email to each customer. I was proposing to
include a link on the email which will then take them to a WebForm generated
from the aforementioned Xml document ( I need pointers on how I can create a
UI to this document). This web form would allow them to edit their data and
add to it. When they submit the form the modified document (or a modified
copy of the original document) would then be passed (probably via the sql
table) to our product manager for checking. When checked the file would be
processed into our database.

Does that sound like a practical plan? What technologies, components, etc
should I be using?

Thanks in advance

Russell Wyatt

Russell

What you could do is design a set of classes that model the information in
your XML document, using the XmlSerializer to inflate and persist your
objecs to an from XML, e.g. you have a Customer class which has their name,
address, telephone etc.

Then you can design web forms more easily that can manipulate the data and
provide integrity checks etc, apart from that it sounds a good plan.

Paul

"Russell Wyatt" <russellw_REMOVE_THIS_TO_REPLY_ (AT) ihs (DOT) com.au> wrote

Thanks Paul for your response. That gives me a good starting point.

Regards

Russell Wyatt


"Paul Hatcher" <phatcher (AT) spamless (DOT) cix.co.uk> wrote