Stolen Awards.

[Art]

Doug,

Mahdi PM'd me and had a suggestion along a similar line. He suggested a form based entry, which would accept input such as awards wanted/available. When the person enters they would select the awards and enter the numbers (actually this could organized in 3 different drop down boxes, Titles, Orders and Medals..the person could select the appropriate award ) The more automated the process is, the more consistent the data will be which is crucial to keeping it organized and usable.

This type of work is a little over my head at the moment. While I can make forms with relative ease using Macromedia's Dreamweaver, I'm not skilled in tabulating results or formatting the sent data. Here are some thoughts out loud:

We would have to look at the process more. If I'm at the database, I'm either looking for a missing award, or I've got many awards with serial numbers that I want to enter into the database.

We would have to assume that someone entering the data cannot tell what the award is for the serial number he is entering. This means identification is a preliminary step that we have to have. This would require a drop down box or list or something with all the Russian names of the awards as you would see them stamped in an award book. The person can select the name that is in the stamped book, then enter the serial number.

Likewise, if I'm searching for the data, all I should need to do is enter the serial number. All serial numbers that match the one entered would pop-up, with the Russian name that was selected when it was entered.

Entry should be password protected, with a membership required similar to this forum. This would deter falsely/incorrectly entered data and provide the necessary means for contacting the data-enterer.

So how do we do it? anyone here skilled in Perl or CGI, or know someone who is? I'm willing to invest time and ( god forbid ) a little money into this project if we can get a weekend script hacker to work on this.

Art