Data Entry sequential forms - Better way

[michi.for]

Hi all, and thank you for your answers.

I have to collect many informations, and with that informations print a document.

Informations are divided by 8 "type":
- financial informations (bank coordinates)
- personal informations (name, fiscal code, address...)
- business informations
...and so on.

I need suggestions about the best way to collect these informations.

This is what is in my mind:
a mask for every "type" of information.
After insert the data, press "NEXT" to the next mask.
Every mask must put the data in many linked tables, but the main table "DOCUMENT" contain the references to the other tables with the data collected.
I thought about a control on every mask:
every mask must contain a minimum data to be considered "completed".
If this data is inserted, the "next" button put a flag in the main table relative to that mask.
At the end i check the flags, and if all are checked i can print the document.

Is this a good way?
Have you got alternatives?

Thanks again, and have a nice day.

Francesco

 

[michi.for]

No suggestion?

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

I don't understand your question?

 

[michi.for]

I made questions.... If it is a Good way or not...

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

I made questions.... If it is a Good way or not...

You also said "No suggestions?" ... The implication being that you thought your question had been up long enough to have received an answer... To which I replied I do not understand your question. The implication being that if I don't understand your question then it's probably reasonable to assume that other people do not understand your question either...

 

[michi.for]

How Collect big data with forms?
If i have a sequence of forms, what things i have to watch to male things better?

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

I assume when you say a Mask you mean a form? If that's the case then you could use a sequence of forms however you also say that you want to control everything and have a master table which is flagged on completion of each step. I think that might be difficult to set up if you've got numerous forms. I think you would be much better off with one form with a Tab control on it. Have your information gathering on separate tabs. A Tab control has an on change property so you could set the on change property of the tab up so that if a tab had not been completed, then it would not let you move to the next tab.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

There's an example here showing you how to control a Tab control with the onchange event (I think it's called the on change event) Tab control password