While creating a workbook in Flex, we came across a number of challenges by solving which, we could reach to the completion of the project. We had to search a way to generate PDF and Word documents of the data once all the information is filled in the workbook.

And the greatest challenge we had to meet was to transfer the data from Flex interface to server side technology like PHP and insert the data into database.

As the documents containing the information and data of the clients are very important to the company, it should be well formatted. And so instead of generating document directly from Flex, we decided to generate it using client and server side technology.

And it was, by using the XML encoding that we transferred the data from flex to server side technology.