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Application Setup

A web application can be comfortably set up in dbFront within 30 minutes.  You can view the video Adventure Works in 5 Minutes to see this in action.

Below you will find the steps that are required so that you can get to the point were a user can log in to the application and start updating the data.

Advanced activities such as custom validation and action buttons will take a bit longer to set up but most of that time will be spent crafting appropriate registry expressions, database procedures or table triggers.

First Steps

  1. Create a Database Connection.
  2. Update the Database Preferences to organize your tables and set some basic properties.
  3. For each table:
  4. Finally, update the Connection Access to give your users access.

Advanced Steps

  • Create/Update database triggers and constraints to ensure business rules can't be violated
  • Add Action Buttons to perform specialized functions.
  • Add Row Level Security to ensure users can only see and edit what they should.
  • Add Reports for invoicing, review or documentation purposes.

Next Step

The next step is to update the preferences for the databases the connection made available

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