"forgeh" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> :confused; I need to be able to track who has taken the cbt. I have
> created a
> sign-on application to have Authorware store user information to text
> file. If
> I understand correctly, when a user signs on, authorware writes the
> information
> to the text file. I have tested it on my harddrive and it works fine.
> However, when I publish the CBT and place it on our local server, it does
> nothing, meaning the sign on script works fine, but no data is written to
> a
> text file.
> So the question really is, how do I get authorware to store user
> information
> when the published file is the only thing that resides on the server?
> This is
> also required in order to have authorware check for previous log-in
> records and
> be able to return the user to the place where they left off in the CBT.
> Any help would be appreciated. Please note I am not a programmer and my
> technical skills come from reading step by step processes in a book...I
> have
> followed the instructions on the creation of the sign-on screens but there
> is
> no reference to how this works from a published file or what happens if
> the
> published file resides on a server.

You'll need to look at a back end technology, such as ASP, ColdFusion, or
PHP. You could also use ftp.u32 to upload the file from the user's hard
drive to the server, but this is kind of buggy.