I have a new project I'm working on and am looking for ideas, not necessarily code, about methods to acheive the results. Here's the problem / requirements.
We look up authorizations from our patient's insurance companies on the insurance company web sites. Currently this information is printed and filed with other patient data. We would like to move away from printing this and instead, just save the page to a pdf file that will be attached to our document management system.
We can of course, just hit the print button in the browser and select a PDF printer, name the file and save it in the correct place and this will work. I'm looking for something a little bit more automatic for my users though. My first thought (explaining the title of this question) is to have the insurance company web site open in a frame and have a button in another frame that will take the contents of the Insurance Frame and send it to a PDF generating control. The immediately obvious problem with this is that the insurance company web-site is not part of our domain, so I'm not able to access the contents of the frame. I thought about an AJAX method where I would retrieve the contents of the page from a server-side control, but the web-sites are secure and the server control would not be able to login and access the data (at least through any method I'm aware of).
I could possibly write a windows application to scrape the IE page directly out of IE, and I will be looking into that possibility.
My question is simply a request for ideas. Given what I'm trying to accomplish, how would others go about this.
Thanks,
Neal.
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