Re: Org-mode to feed a database

[Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>]

* 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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