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Somewhat unusual request.
Each day I need to go inspect cars for my job and check off simple yes/no questions, then go enter that into a database when I get back to the office.
Is there a program that I could use, like a phone app, where it could be set up where I check off the yes/no answers there in the app, then it automatically adds that to the database?
How the information is stored isn't too important, it could be an excel spreadsheet or whatever. I've heard you can do great things with excel and I've got the mobile app for that, if it helps.
I realize there might be some programming involved, but if you could just point me in the right direction I could read some tutorials and do the rest on my own - any thoughts about what to use?
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>>296460
Describe what you do.
I dont think it requires some app to make your job easier.
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>>296465
Yeah I don't either I'm not a tech guy this is what we've been doing for years
But you know how stuff gets handed down from you on high and there's this big "tech initiative" to incorporate "smart" technology and stuff.
Honestly entering it straight into excel always worked for me but you know, if we had some fancy application that did even the trivial job of data entry, it would get some pressure off the department to "innovate"
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>>296460
You're looking for what's called a "data collection" app.
There simply doesn't seem to be one that doesn't require a mothership of some kind, and almost all of them charge for access to the mothership. Which is a shame, because the actual UX for making and using forms on all these things is really good.
Epicollect is free, and you can host your own mothership, so it's probably the best of a bad bunch.
>>296465
Fuck off.
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>>296467
Thanks my guy, I'll look into it
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>>296468
If your firm is already paying for Office 365, it looks like you can have private forms on Microsoft Forms, which seems like exactly what you need.
https://jonathanwylie.com/2016/07/16/how-to-use-microsoft-forms-in-office-365-education/
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>>296471
Wow, this is great too. I'll look em both over and figure out what works best
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