2023:Data Connection (Node Type)

Data Connections are required to connect a Grooper Repository to an external database.  The Data Connection stores all information needed to access the database.  Once connected, Grooper has both read and write access to tables in the database (assuming you have those user rights in the database).

Grooper can connect to a Microsoft SQL Server or certain ODBC-compliant providers (such as Oracle, DB2, MySql and Postgres).

Data Connections are primarily used for two reasons in Grooper

• To validate data extracted from a document or to populate fields using values stored in a database.
  • This is done using Database Lookups defined on Data Models.
• To export collected data to a database.
  • This is done using Data Exports defined using Export Behaviors

How To

Create a Data Connection

Data Connections can be created in any Grooper Project.

Use a Data Connection for Database Lookups

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Use a Data Connection for Data Export

Coming soon