ginahoy
12-30-2007, 08:32 PM
I'm designing a website for my "green building" consulting business. Customers will log in and fill out an interactive form that will help me model their building for energy consumption. They will answer questions about insulation, windows, etc. As customer progresses through the form, the next question presented may depend on an answer to a previous question (not all questions apply to every building). Context-sensitive help will be available to assist first-time users. For now, I will manually transfer the data into third-party modeling tool(s).
I found a contract programmer with a construction background. He has MySQL and PHP experience. I'm having trouble coming up with a way to specify all possible paths through the interactive form. I started out by documenting every field of the database in outline form using MS Word. But trying to explain all the branch-outs with a simple outline quickly became unwieldy.
Can someone recommend a pseudo-code or natural language documentation technique or tool that I could use to specify the logic of the interactive form? Perhaps a flow chart diagram would be easiest? I checked downloads.com and didn't find much there.
Thanks,
David
I found a contract programmer with a construction background. He has MySQL and PHP experience. I'm having trouble coming up with a way to specify all possible paths through the interactive form. I started out by documenting every field of the database in outline form using MS Word. But trying to explain all the branch-outs with a simple outline quickly became unwieldy.
Can someone recommend a pseudo-code or natural language documentation technique or tool that I could use to specify the logic of the interactive form? Perhaps a flow chart diagram would be easiest? I checked downloads.com and didn't find much there.
Thanks,
David