Work on this project started in September, 1999. TREC Real Estate Commission's online real estate license renewal system, which could ultimately provide 110,000 renewals per biennium. This project is in two phases. Phase one, involves the capture of application data over the Internet and follow-up submission of a printed application by mail. Phase two adds the capability of payment over the Internet.
Applicants complete an HTML form.
Rudimentary client-side validation, such as field format compliance, is accomplished using JavaScript functions. Once the form is submitted, server-side validations are accomplished using both JavaScript and VBScript. Where necessary, mainframe database data is used in validations. After the server-side validations are completed, the collected information is stored in a 'holding' file in the database. In the initial project phase, this document is used for mail-in submission.