[ddj] Interactive calculator question from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Tue Aug 27 09:21:42 UTC 2013

Amy, you might want to check out Tangle. Haven't seen that many examples
using this, but the logic is straight forward. You could use user inputs to
built the answer. This might involve a coder, but not for weeks and months.

http://worrydream.com/Tangle/

2013/8/27 Amy Simmons <Simmons.Amy at abc.net.au>

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> I’m a digital producer with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.****
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> Does anyone know of any interactive calculator tools?****
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> We are doing a story on Fringe Benefits Tax.****
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> We want  people to be able to enter the value of their car, the total
> operating cost and the percentage of personal use. Then we want them to be
> able to hit ‘calculate my FBT’, and for the calculator to spit out two
> costs based on two different methods. ****
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> Ideally I’d like to be able to simply paste the data from Excel into the
> tool, as I’m not a developer and don’t have coding experience!****
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> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.****
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> Cheers,****
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> Amy ****
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