Data Providers
Web Service Data Provider
General Info This data provider can be used to fetch information from a web service. An argument designer is provided in order to specify the input parameters of the web service to call. The web service data provider properties are the following: ...
SharePoint People Data Provider
General Info This Data Provider is used to fetch Person or Group records from a SharePoint site. The result value is an array of objects of type pf.sp.IPrincipal. The properties used to configure this provider are the following: Url: The url of the ...
SharePoint Single-Record Data Provider
General Info This Data Provider is used to fetch a single list item from a SharePoint custom list or document library based on its ID. The result value is a javascript object. The properties used to configure this provider are the following: ...
SharePoint Multi-Record Data Provider
General Info This Data Provider is used to fetch multiple list items from a SharePoint custom list or document library. The result value is an array of objects. The properties used to configure this provider are the following: Url: The url of the ...
Url Data Provider
General Info This data provider can be used to fetch information from a URL. The data should be formatted within the file in JSON format, so that they are properly deserialized properly to objects and arrays upon retrieval. The "Url" property defines ...
Async Code Data Provider
General Info This type of data provider has a similar logic with the Code Data Provider, in that it allows you to write javascript code and feed your controls and properties with a completely custom value on runtime. However, instead of expecting a ...
Code Data Provider
General Info This Code Data Provider enables you to write javascript code in the very same way you would execute a native Javascript function: after calculating the new value, you should use a “return” statement in order to specify the final value to ...
Formula Data Provider
General Info The Formula Data Provider enables you use a Formula as a control value. This is particularly useful when the value has to be a dynamically evaluated expression (that depends on other controls/other conditions). Examples 1) The following ...
Static Data Provider
This type of data provider returns a static list (array) of strings or objects. Useful for lookup data (for example in Combobox control), where a set of values can be defined in Design time. The actual list of values can be set using the tabular ...
Introduction to Data Providers
Purpose of Data Providers Throughout the creation and development of Openous forms and controls, the concept of data providers is widely used. Data providers are essentially components that are used to interact with various data sources (static ...