I posted this on the Adobe web forum, but I think I'll have better luck posting here.
I am a newbie to flex... using flex 2 builder and cfmx 7.0.2. I have my first project to be done in flex -- a fairly large web survey. So far I've built the UI using a ViewStack... each canvas has one or more related questions. There's a previous/next button row at the bottom, and I eventually need it to work in such a way as to not allow NEXT to be clicked unless all fields on the canvas are filled in. My MXML file is huge, but one design goal I had was to have the entire survey be loaded by the user, and not communicate with the server again until the user has made choices on all fields and is ready to submit. This way, I'm hoping I can try to capture the data in the event that the user has an internet problem and let them try again or save their choices to an XML file and either email it or upload it later when they are back online. This is a nice thing to do for the user, since the survey is so long. I just want to prevent the survey from being interrupted, since it's so long. If the entire survey is loaded when the person loads the swf, and I can just attempt to send one survey object back to the server at the end, I can trap errors and provide another route to go..... I was going to use mx:Form to build the forms on each ViewStack Canvas... one form for each canvas, but still all bound to a single Survey object, as follows... So then I created a Survey.xml file that I was going to use with mx:Model, and try to simply create an xml tree representing a "Survey object", it's metadata (startDateTime, endDateTime, IP address, etc.), and it's questions and answers. My thought was that I could populate this Survey object as the user progressed through the ViewStack, and then send the entire object to the server when complete, and if that failed, ask them to try again or offer to save the XML file to their system for later upload or emailing. Is this a reasonable way to proceed? What are the pitfalls? Is there something different I should be considering? Thanks, M -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
