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 ODBC-compliant providers (such as Oracle, Db2, MySQL and PostgreSQL).
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.
Known Issues
The Grooper installer ships with various pre-requisite components which are installed before the Grooper application. This includes CLR type mappings for various SQL data types. However, to keep the installer package lightweight, less common CLR types were not included. This includes geometry and geography data types for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
In order to preview Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database tables with geometry or geography data types, you will need to install the following package:
Use a Data Connection for Database Lookups
Coming soon
Use a Data Connection for Data Export
Coming soon