Re: AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
Re: AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
- Subject: Re: AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
- From: Greg Sharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:57:34 +1100
- Thread-topic: AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
Hi David,
Have you considered doing things differently, namely is there any reason why
you cannot web enable your membership database?
You could go out and buy Filemaker Server 8 Advanced which would give you
total control with custom web publishing. Unfortunately being thousands of
dollars this solution is beyond most groups means financially. However since
version 4 the client version of Filemaker has supported instant web
publishing and only requires modifying one or two settings to implement. You
can set user or group level access permissions on the database if needed as
well.
This way you can have prospective members fill in their own membership
application on line (saves you a lot of work but can expose you to security
issues if not done properly) or if you don't wish to make the database
public set it up so your approved partners ( implementing user/group
permissions in Filemaker) can log in and add new members details to the
database. Both of these alternatives will work from anywhere with an
internet connection.
Another added advantage is that you could set up other database's, for
example one for polls that could be integrated in such a way as to verify
that a member exists in the members database (if the members database was
publicly accessible) before being able to vote. You could even set it up so
these visitors wanting to vote get redirected to a sign up page for new
memberships. There are heaps of different applications that could be
instigated this way.
--
All the best
Greg Sharp
President/Webmaster
email@hidden
Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG)
http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org
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