Is Access good for making a Survey?

[kelemvor]

We are looking to have some stand-alone PCs setup at a trade show to conduct Exit Surveys for people to give us their feedback. I was going to create a survey using a form in HTML but thought Access might work for that too.

Is this somethign Access could do a good job on? We'd have some text fields, some dropdown boxes, some check boxes, etc.

Also if we can find some cheap enough, we might try to hook them up to touchscreen monitors so we don't need a keyboard. However we'd then need a way for people to have a keyboard pop up on the screen to be able to type things. Not sure how that'd work yet but we're still in the therorizing phase.

 

[MikeFabro]

sure, why not?

Access would be easy to use for your survey.

It sounds like one form would do it-- you could have drop down menus, text boes, etc... linked to tables that hold all of the survey information.

I would suggest using the data entry property on the form and remove all navigation buttons so that people can't search through or edit other entries.

If you wanted to have it online still, you could use the Data Access Pages that Access uses to present information and forms online.

 

[kelemvor]

We are thinking that we might not want to have a Keyboard available to the users in case someone decides they want to crash the computer or delete things or things like that. Does Access have any wya of allowing people to type with a mouse by showing a keyboard and they cna click letters to type them? Kind of like how you type on a touch screen monitor with no keyboard?

Just curious.