Programatically create adobe form?

Hi,
I have an interesting request from a client. They do surveys which they are now designing in Excel. The surveys are long and change for each job they do for their customers. They would like to be able to define a survey and have a program take that data and create a fillable PDF for their field reps to use (right now, the field reps are filling in paper and sending the paper back to the home office for data entry). The PDF would have a SUBMIT button which would submit the data to an online database.
If the forms would have to be programmed by hand, it would be unwieldy because a single rep could fill out 100 or more questionairres in a single job with varying listings of questions depending on where they are going to get the data (the locations are predefined). The key here is to have the data either in Excel or, better yet, a database and have the forms generated.
Can this be done and, if so, how?
Thanks in advance

Hi,
I couldn't get to your query..
What do you mean by step by step procedure for a design time & process for forms.
if you are a beginner and looking for basic examples to implement adobe forms there are lot of them in SDN, please search them.
let me know if your query was a very specific one.
Cheers,
Sai

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