For full disclosure, I am not a developer, but I can dabble.

I want to set up a form on a landing page for clients to fill out. The form will contain custom fields that already exist on the opportunity page. On form submission, I want to populate the fields in that client's opportunity page with the values they filled out in the form.

Is this possible? I've been looking at https://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/Content/sforce_api_calls_update.htm, but I'm not sure how to write to custom fields or if there's anything else I need to be concerned with.

I'm pretty much starting from the ground up with no knowledge of how to get started with apex, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks! Jess

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Possible Suggestion/Solution #1

If you're not a developer, I would suggest you consider looking into Visual Workflows or Flows. Visual Workflows allow administrators to build simple user interfaces and guide users through forms and steps, very similar to the needs you are describing.

I love learning from the Salesforce workbooks because it allows me to really dig into a feature and see how it works in real scenarios. With that, please take a look at the Cloud Flow Designer Workbook:

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/workbook_flow/workbook_flow.pdf

Or for a broader overview of flows, there are dozens of resources out there, but I recommend starting with the documentation:

https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewHelpDoc?id=vpm_admin_flow_overview.htm&language=en_US

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