The Future Of Forms

With the help of Oracle staff, he tested a program that queried District employees. He combined CGI script with Oracle query and was able to get CGI script to read form data or look up a person in the database for validation. People were notified through e-mail when a form needed to be approved.

The contractor discovered, upon installing the first scanned-in form on the intranet, that there were compatibility problems between Netscape Communicator and Netscape Navigator in addition to the connectivity problems with the old and new Netscape software. We realized how important it is to have a compatible database "source" for the required information to provide security and routing for a forms system for large organizations.