First, I want to thank you for your help. You have made great points
and I just want to respond to some of your questions.
> My first thought is that if you use a combined "info" field, you'll
> lose the ability to easily do any kind of meaningful data analysis
> based on which boxes are checked. If you just want to record what a
> given user said at a certain time, but don't need it for any other,
> more interesting evaluation of the data, then why bother with a
> database?
You are right that I don't really need to do any evaluation of the
data, I just need to be able to get the default values of a form
every time the user logs on. Each user may have their own default
value for a form, and each form will have different components. A
database was the first (may be not the best?) thing I thought of.
Would you have other suggestions of how I should store them?
> If it were me, I would probably store the form values in the database
> fields, so that the table's columns matched the various data inputs in
> the form.
If the structure of each report did not differ this would work great
but unfortunately it does.
Thank you again.
Dianne