General Web Page Set up

[lajutown]

I have a web site that has many forms available to our employees. The problem is that they download the forms to their individual PC's and then never have the most current versions.

Is there any way to remove the "save" feature of a form through my web site?

The forms are .pdf files and even using Adobe's security features, I can't stop a save.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Laj

[PeOfEo]

humm, what kind of forms, like a text box or like a form with
what is your name __________
or something? You could always just do html forms.

[alexn817]

If its to send info to someone, just use html.
Much easier.:)

[Compguy Pete]

I think one solution may be to post on the Intranet site the latest versions of the files. Then name the files with their version numbers.

Your only other option is to make it so they need to take the forms from teh server and not used local saved copies.

[PeOfEo]

What are you doing with these forms exactly. Maybe ditching the pdf all together would be a better solution.

[h4r01d]

if this is a corporate LAN environment and assuming these users are downloading a file from a shared drive, you could set the file permissions to read-only if there is some issue to them changing them, but that doesnt exactly sound like the reason the files are changing.

Are they being updated by some admin person, thus making obsolete all of the previously saved copies?

it can be a bit of a hassle, but a good netadmin should be able to push files to users if the network is set up correctly doing a network 'install' of sorts.

or... if each user station is shareing the area where files are saved the admin could manually do some batch or query to find and overwrite old file versions of specified file names.

if I am not mistaken (often I can be), this is all possible on a NT4 domain, 2k domain, or 2003 domain. My Novell skills are rather novel to say the least, and I cant recall how to begin to do this in Unix.... too long since I took those classes

hope that helps at all

[Aronya1]

Originally posted by h4r01d
or... if each user station is shareing the area where files are saved the admin could manually do some batch or query to find and overwrite old file versions of specified file names.

I think this is about as simple an answer as you're going to find. I do support in an insurance company office & their forms are always changing for compliance reasons, etc. There's no way to get users to look for newer versions of forms.

One thought just occurred to me: you could try teaching your users to create links to the files, rather than copying them. Then, you would just have to use the same file names for the docs you change & the users would be pulling up the current version every time.