How much effort in developing an offline adobe interactive form - crm 2007

We have a requirement to develop an offline adobe interactive form in crm 2007 sp4. The form will be linked with a visit transaction and when saved will also facilittae the transfer of the form from crm to outlook via groupware integration. From what i can see we have the following steps which will need to be implemented.
1 - Develop web service to pull information from the created visit to the Offline Adobe Interactive Form
2 - Create an Adobe interactive Form template to hold the details of the visit
3 - Set up Groupware Integration to pass the form from CRM to Outook (DONE)
4 - Develop some approach for uploading the form data back to the CRM server (of which there appears to be three approaches - Submit by Email / WebServices / WebDynpro-Upload )
The form itself is not going to be too detailed. It will be prepopulated with the following fields:
Account No, Account Name, Contact, Date, Time, Transaction No, Transaction Category. It will also have a number of text fields which will be used to capture the details of the visit. It will have a submit button to allow for the data to be uploaded by the appropriate upload method.
Can anyone give me some guidance as to how long it would take to implement such a requirement.
Thanks in advance
Eddie

Hi,
Do review this Thread, I think this will help you.
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