Case in point — you have an important web-based form and a visitor has spent 30 minutes filling it out.  The visitor presses the “submit form” button and the form post fails (because the visitor has lost Internet connectivity or for any number of other reasons).  The visitor gets some error screen, gets very annoyed, and quits.  Form post lost, data lost, customer feedback, potential sale … lost.

This situation can be prevented and these important form posts saved by using some JavaScript (AJAX) techniques in your web form page.

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We recently had an interesting use case posed to us by an existing customer.  They are a chain of restaurants and they need:

1. The managers of these restaurants to fill out an online form nightly

2. The form data to be transmitted securely and saved

3. To be able to securely download a spreadsheet of all of the submitted form data in the morning.

They wanted to know if there was any existing solution for this scenario … and how complicated it might be to set up.  

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