Rather than rolling your own applications, you can use frevvo to build custom forms, configure advanced workflows, integrate data from a MySQL database, and ship a solution—in about an hour. You can sign up to try frevvo free for days. The Database Connector allows you to perform sophisticated integration with your database. These implementations will allow you to create forms that populate form fields based on database entries. The result of a SQL query could be a single row or multiple rows each with many columns — the form will instantly update to show you the information relevant to your request.
Then follow the steps below for each section. The steps are as follows:. This is a straightforward query that simply retrieves the list of customers from the customers table in the database. You can name these whatever you want.
For our example, we create a new form in the Designer. Drag in a Dropdown control. Label it whatever you want. In the Properties panel, change the Name to sc. When the form is loaded, the drop down will be populated with the list of customers as shown in the image above. The example initializes the customers pick list as above. When you select a customer, it uses a similar rule to initialize a second dependent pick list using the value from the customer pick list. Note: The form itself is not visible.
Also note that the default width of an input field is 20 characters. Notice that each input field must have a name attribute to be submitted. If the name attribute is omitted, the value of the input field will not be sent at all. We just launched W3Schools videos. Get certified by completing a course today! If you want to report an error, or if you want to make a suggestion, do not hesitate to send us an e-mail:.
This process automatically creates the form template's main data source. Add one or more controls to display the query results To allow users to see and edit the data in the fields in the main data source when they open the form, you can add a control to the form template and then bind that control to a field in the main data source.
If you are designing a browser-compatible form template, select the Enable browser-compatible features only check box. Note: The Data Connection Wizard will not enable the submit data connection in a browser-compatible form template.
To allow users to submit their data to a database from forms that are based on a browser-compatible form template, add a secondary data connection to a Web service that works with the database. Find links to more information about secondary data connections in the See Also section. If the database determines who has access based on the credentials used in a Microsoft Windows network, click Use Windows Authentication.
If the database determines who has access based on a specified user name and password that you get from the database administrator, click Use the following User Name and Password , and then type your user name and password in the User Name and Password boxes.
In the Select the database that contains the data you want list, click the name of the database that you want to use, select the Connect to a specific table check box, click the name of the primary table, and then click Next. On the next page of the wizard, type a name for the file that stores the data connection information in the File Name box, and then click Finish to save these settings.
If you plan to use other tables in the query data connection, you can add the other tables in this page of the wizard. In the Add Table or Query dialog box, click the name of the child table, and then click Next. InfoPath attempts to set the relationships by matching field names in both tables. If you do not want to use the suggested relationship, select the relationship, and then click Remove Relationship.
To add a relationship, click Add Relationship. In the Add Relationship dialog box, click the name of each related field in the respective column, and then click OK.
On the last page of the wizard, type a name for the main data connection. This name will appear in the Data source list in the Data Source task pane. If your form template meets the requirements in the Overview section, this page of the wizard will indicate that InfoPath enabled the submit data connection in the main data connection.
To change the name for the submit data connection, type a new name in the appropriate box. If you want your users to submit their form data through another submit data connection that you will add to the form template later, click to clear the Enable submit for this connection check box. Note: If your form template does not meet the requirements in the Overview section, InfoPath disables the submit data connection, and the Enter a name for the submit connection box and the Enable submit for this connection check box are unavailable disabled.
If InfoPath disables the submit data connection, the main data connection for your form template will have only a query data connection. In the Control Binding dialog box, select the group or field that you want to bind the control to. If your form template and the tables that you selected in the Data Connection Wizard meet the requirements in the Overview section, InfoPath configures your form template to submit data through its main data connection.
If you choose to use this submit data connection, InfoPath configures the form template so that users can submit their form data to the database and adds both the Submit button to the Standard toolbar and the Submit command to the File menu when users fill out the form.
InfoPath also configures the form template so that, when users submit their forms, the form remains open and a message is displayed to the user that indicates whether the form was successfully submitted. You can change the text on the Submit button and the behavior after the user submits a form.
To change the name of the Submit button that appears on the Standard toolbar and the Submit command that appears on the File menu when users fill out the form, type the new name in the Caption box in the Submit Options dialog box.
If you do not want people to use a Submit command or the Submit button on the Standard toolbar when they fill out your form, clear the Show the Submit menu item and the Submit toolbar button check box.
By default, after users submit a form, InfoPath keeps the form open and displays a message to indicate if the form was successfully submitted. To change this default behavior, click Advanced , and then do one of the following:.
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