Lookup Specification

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2025

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A Lookup Specification defines a "lookup operation", where existing Grooper fields (called "lookup fields") are used to query an external data source, such as a database. The results of the lookup can be used to validate or populate field values (called "target fields") in Grooper. Lookup Specifications are created on "container elements" (data_table Data Models, insert_page_break Data Sections and table Data Tables) using their Lookups property. Lookups may query using all single-instance fields relative to the container element (including those defined on parent elements up to the root Data Model), but cannot be used to populate a field value on a parent of the container element.