Data Export
Capture User Information For Storage, Analysis or Further Action
Mapit Designer can be used to capture data by collating the answers a user has given in executing a Mapit script on your website or intranet. You may wish to submit this information to another system for storage, analysis or further action.
This is a technical task best suited to your systems department but a brief explanation follows.
Data from a Mapit Script can be submitted to external systems using the Hyperlink facility. The Mapit Script sends its data to a HTTP URL exposed by your external system.
An HTML Form containing one hidden Form Input field with the name “xml” will be sent to the URL specified in the Hyperlink. The form is submitted using the HTTP POST method.
The content of the hidden “xml” input is the Mapit Script session data in XML format and contains a definition of the Mapit Document, data from all user input, and an execution history for the session.
Once the form is submitted to the URL, the external system can receive and process the XML data.
The XSD schema defining the session XML is explained further in the user manual. When you purchase Mapit Designer detailed examples of how this process works are also included, as well as an example .Net website with example code.
The example below will demonstrate how this data export works. Take the Online Survey and - at the end of the survey - click on the link to the demonstration online processor.