Word 2013 - webpages to replace modal dialog boxes

[diana]

in Word 2013 - I would like to remove old legacy modal dialog boxes and replace with webpages.

The function of the old legacy dialog boxes is:
Show Dialog box
Users enter data, clicked OK
The data then populated the document in bookmark locations

New design:
Summary of workflow
On a webpage
user enters data, clicks OK
Data is then populated into the document - how? I would like to avoid bookmarks - populate in content controls, other method

Any suggestions on the technology I should use to for the webpage. or how best to achieve this.

Many thanks, dd

[DaveA]

I am trying to visualize what your ate trying to accomplish?

[diana]

This is the old dialog box currently used.

If possible, I would like to convert this modal dialog into a webpage.
When the user enter data
The data is then populated back into a word document.

Im not sure how to achieve this. what technology is the best method to do this, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Guessed]

Diana

This can be scripted using vbscript on a webpage or possibly by having automacros in the templates you open from the html page. The best solution may depend on:
- What is the webpage hosted on and what restrictions are imposed by this webserver/provider?
- What browsers might be used to view the webpage?
- What your scripting experience is?

I would be looking to use Content Controls and a custom xml file to store the information you are passing from the browser. This avoids the need to use bookmarks.

[Rudi]

Hi Diana,

Please don't take my reply as a definite no, but I highly doubt that one can take a Visual Basic user form and convert it quickly into a web form. All the code will need to be converted into HTML or Java and its probably a matter of re-scripting the code than just *converting it*. I'd be interested in other replies myself.

[diana]

Thank you Guessed

Using either IE or Chrome
Ive scripting experience

Looks like a redesign from scratch in a webpage format...

Many thanks again

[Guessed]

You can find examples on the net which show you how the final product might work. This youtube video looks relevant and gives clues if you wanted to use MS products to integrate this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_0tywlZd_c

Sharepoint has workflow and document automation features that may be useful to you too.

[diana]

Many thanks Guessed, Ill take a look. dd :)