Quickdata is an interface to a database for storing data from Web forms. You can use your Campus Connect username and password to access the system and set up surveys. You can use your own Web forms, or use the Quickdata site's tools to create one.
POINT YOUR BROWSER AT THE QUICKDATA WEB PAGE
If this URL changes some day, try typing quickdata depaul in the search box at www.google.com for the latest version.
CREATE A NEW GROUP
Click on "Group Options - New Group" in the left panel, and give your group a name. For this example, I'll use the name "mygroup".
CREATE A NEW FORM
In the left panel, click on "Form Options - New Form". Select the group to place it in ("mygroup") and give your form a name. I'll use "myform" in this example. It will ask if you want Quickdata to help you create a form. If you want to use your own web form, click "no." If you click "yes" it will walk you through a wizard to create a new form (nice if you do not know anything about HTML).
COPY THE <FORM> TAG TO YOUR THE FORM ON YOUR WEB PAGE
A window will pop up containing something like the following:
<form method="post"
action="http://www.itd.depaul.edu/quickdata2/submitData.asp?form_id=566&web_form_bit=0&version=1">
This should be the opening tag of the form you want to submit data from. It will be different for each form you "create" in Quickdata. What you have really done is to create a table in the Quickdata database where user input from a web form can be stored. The URL in the <form> tag points to a server-side script that puts the data from your form into that database. You can then access the data using the web interface at the Quickdata Web site.
TECHNICAL NOTE: NAME VERSUS ID
Quickdata currently does not seem to understand id= labels for a form input field, so be sure to use name= instead of (or in addition to) id labels.
CHANGING THE DEFAULT "THANK YOU" PAGE
By default, Quickdata displays a "Thank You" page after the form data is submitted. You can change this to be a Web page of your choosing (such as your debriefing page). Here is how:
Once inside QuickData, click on your form. Then choose "form properties" on the left-hand side. A new window will pop up. Choose the "edit" button on that window. (You may have to scroll down to find it.) Type your URL, preceded by http:// in the box called "next page"
EXAMPLE FORM
The form below will store data in my Quickdata database that I just created. If you copy this page and change the action= property in the HTML source of the page to include the URL Quickdata gave you, you can then submit data to your Quickdata database instead of mine, so that you can later retrieve it.
The form below will store data in my Quickdata database that I just created. If you copy this page and change the action= property in the HTML source of the page to include the URL Quickdata gave you, you can then submit data to your Quickdata database instead of mine, so that you can later retrieve it.