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IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to Building and Integrating a Sample Workplace Forms Application
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IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to Building and Integrating a Sample Workplace Forms Application

by Bernd Beilke, Cayce Marston, Kioko Mwosa, George Poirier, Andreas A. Richter, Deanna Drschiwiski, John Bergland, Yves Bollanga
July 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
356 pages
10h 31m
English
IBM Redbooks
Content preview from IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to Building and Integrating a Sample Workplace Forms Application
Chapter 4. Building the base scenario: Stage 1 121
4.8.7 Extraction of form data
For form data extraction, basically three methods are available:
򐂰 Extracting single values using API
򐂰 Extracting complete data instances using API
򐂰 Access to any stored information using text parsers
There are different insertion points for the extracting code, depending on the way the form is
submitted. The Forms Viewer has three basic methods to return a form:
򐂰 Store on a file system
򐂰 Submit as a mail attachment
򐂰 Submit as an HTTP POST action
Storing requests to the file system or submitting by mail is out of scope of this redbook.
Nevertheless, the techniques ...
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