From: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode to feed a database
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:15:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2014-12-30T22-14-51@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E3C1E185-AB7F-478A-A864-CCD131BE5720@agrarianresearch.org
* Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> wrote:
> This is, in all likelihood, a crazy idea. Please excuse me for that.
Hehe.
> I often need to get a number of people enter complex survey data
> into a database using some kind of forms. The forms I need are
> fairly complex (with several nested grids, for example). I need
> radio-buttons and drop-down menus-equivalents.
>
> I was thinking if it would be worth it to use Org-mode for data
> entry.
>
> The idea would be something like this. We have a template org file
> that is copied for each survey respondent. The template contains
> “blank” org tables and some source blocks. Responses are filled
> into the org tables, and then the source blocks are evaluated to
> feed the data into the database. You can version-control the whole
> thing so that different people can create these records and push
> it to a centralised git repository.
Never done this.
But if I'd do this, I'd definitely take a look at yasnippet and
using it for default values, dropdowns, ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-30 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-29 2:01 Org-mode to feed a database Vikas Rawal
2014-12-29 11:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-31 0:14 ` Vikas Rawal
2014-12-29 18:06 ` Nick Dokos
2014-12-31 0:13 ` Vikas Rawal
2014-12-31 10:37 ` Conducting end user surveys and analyze data (was: Org-mode to feed a database) Karl Voit
2014-12-31 13:05 ` Ista Zahn
2014-12-31 13:40 ` Karl Voit
2014-12-31 13:49 ` Ista Zahn
2014-12-31 15:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-01 16:22 ` Karl Voit
2015-01-02 10:53 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-02 14:04 ` OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization (was: Conducting end user surveys and analyze data) Karl Voit
2015-01-03 21:19 ` OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization Rasmus
2015-01-11 10:52 ` OT: privacy-aware web search via startpage.com (was: OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization) Karl Voit
2015-01-20 6:49 ` OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization (was: Conducting end user surveys and analyze data) Tom Prince
2015-01-20 9:19 ` OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization Karl Voit
2015-01-02 14:15 ` Conducting end user surveys and analyze data Paul Rudin
2015-01-02 16:51 ` OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies (was: Conducting end user surveys and analyze data) Karl Voit
2015-01-03 8:02 ` OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies Paul Rudin
2015-01-11 10:46 ` Karl Voit
2015-01-11 12:14 ` Paul Rudin
2015-01-11 14:55 ` Karl Voit
2015-01-12 7:55 ` Daniele Pizzolli
2014-12-30 21:15 ` Karl Voit [this message]
2015-01-04 22:05 ` Org-mode to feed a database John Kitchin
2015-01-05 3:39 ` Vikas Rawal
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