First and foremost, thanks for taking the time to look at my thread. I've been at this for a few hours now- googling, searching threads, etc- and I'm at my wits end.
What I have is a "volunteers database", which stores info on individuals and organizations who volunteer at the local homeless shelter. In the past, the shelter has been gathering this information via forms on it's webpage. Unfortunately, this website is hosted through Weebly, which doesn't support server side scripting. Instead, Weebly emails this information to the shelter via an MHTML form:
Code:
<div style='background: #ddd; text-align: center; font-family: helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: #222;'>
<div style='padding: 30px;'>
<div style='margin: 0 auto; width: 540px; background: white; text-align: left; padding: 25px; border-radius: 8px; -moz-border-radius: 8px; -webkit-border-radius: 8px;'>
<p>You've just received a new submission to your <a href='http://www.organizationswebsite.com/volunteer.html'>VOLUNTEER FORM</a>.</p><br /><h2 style='font-size: 16px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0 0 5px 0;'><b>Submitted Information:</b></h2><b>Name</b><br />John Doe<br /><br /><b>Phone Number</b><br />555-555-5555<br /><br /><b>Address</b><br />6037 E. East Way<br />Dirty Myrtle, SC 29588<br /><br /><b>Email</b><br />VolunteersEmail@netzero.com<br /><br /><b>Church Or Organization Affiliation</b><br />No Affiliation<br /><br /><b>How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Kitchen/Food Prep</b><br />1<br /><br /><b>How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Construction</b><br />1<br /><br /><b>How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Gardening</b><br />1<br /><br /><b>How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Prayer Warrior</b><br />1<br /><br /><b>How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Maintenance</b><br />1<br /><br /><b>How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Mentoring</b><br />1<br /><br /><b>How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Job Skills</b><br />1<br /><br /><b>How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Transportation</b><br />1<br /><br /><b>How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Front Desk Receptionist</b><br />1<br /><br /><b>How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Painting</b><br />1<br /><br />
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Looking at this, I realize all the information I want to import into the database is delineated by <br /> tags. I'm not interested in parsing these values, using these tags, because I'm under the impression that they would have to somehow archive these messages in order to run any sort of script against them. We're a ragtag bunch and that seems too complicated to be practical.
I'm simply mentioning this angle because I think you might know better...
So, what I've done is this:
-Setup rules in Outlook 2013 to move these emails to a folder in the Inbox.
-Linked MS Access 2013 to said folder.
-Queried pertinent data.
-Created form and set the query as it's data source:
Code:
You've just received a new submission to your VOLUNTEER FORM <http://www.myorganizations.com/volunteer.html> .
Submitted Information:
Name
John Doe
Phone Number
555 - 555 - 5555
Address
1510 Lovely LN, Apt 206
Dirty Myrtle, SC United States 29577
Email
volunteersemail@gmail.com
Church Or Organization Affiliation
Not Affiliated
How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Kitchen/Food Prep
1
How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Maintenance
1
How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Mentoring
1
How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Job Skills
1
How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Front Desk Receptionist
1
How would you like to volunteer? (choose all that apply).Painting
1
And there it sits, in a form-- teasing me... :eek:
My question is this: Am I going about this in the most efficient manner? If so, how do I go about parsing this data so that I can append it to the table?
