I'm currently working on a form that will process a blind-form submit. There are several actions that will take place after the form is submitted (updating databases, redirecting to a PDF, etc.) that depend on a parameter in the URL. I've set all of these up as conditional processing steps on the form. Each step has it's own action, of course, and it's own condition. While adding a condition to each step isn't the most onerous task in the world, it would be nice if we could set the condition once and then have a list of actions that happen when that condition is met. Something like:
If "source" = salesman1
- Update contact database with...
- Update CDO with...
- Send notification email to...
- Redirect to webpage...
If "source" = salesman2
- Update contact database with...
- Update CDO with...
- Send notification email to...
- Redirect to webpage...
This would, I think, not only save some time, but it would reduce the chances of errors in the conditions, make it easier to see what happens on each condition, and making changing a condition much easier. Not only would you have to make the change just one time, you wouldn't have to spend time clicking through each "Update CDO with..." step to find the one with the condition you want to change.
That's my suggestion for the day. Comments or thoughts?