Automatically filling form fields based on users's input

Hi,

I'm creating a knowledge base using SMW and have a question about the best way to implement a feature the users are requesting.

The users are doing literature reviews of PubMed papers and would like to automatically populate several fields of a SMW form I created for them to enter their findings. The idea is that whenever they enter a PubMed ID into the form's PMID field, the form then queries the PubMed Entrez database for the paper's abstract, author's list, etc and pre-fills the appropriate fields in the form. They can then edit any of the fields and save it into SMW.

We have a hack that is sorta working now where they enter their findings into a separate webpage form that we created and once it's filled out we insert it into SMW using Snoopy. Is there some way that would be more elegant?

Thanks in advance

Jrhall60 (talk)