Visual DB

How to use Visual DB

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Getting Started

How to connect to your database, browse tables, and create a query.

How to build a basic form

Evan shows you how to import an Excel CSV file into your database, and create a form for adding, updating and deleting records.

How to add query parameters to a form

This video shows you how to fetch a specific record into your form, for viewing, updating or deleting. You can use query parameters to fetch a specific record, or fetch records that match specific criteria.

How to specify available values and default value

This video shows you how to offer available values in a dropdown, and how to set default values for new records.

How to change input types in a form

This video shows you how to change input types, for example, change a text input to a dropdown or radio buttons.

How to add validation to a form

This video shows you how to add client-side validation to a form. This lets you validate user input in the web browser before the data is sent to the server.

How to disable or hide inputs

This video shows you how to conditionally disable or hide inputs based on the state of other inputs.

How to build a master-detail form

This video shows you how to build a master-detail form.

How to build forms for many-to-many relationships

This video shows you how to build master-detail forms for inserting and updating records in many-to-many relationships. It uses the classic student-courses example where a student can take multiple courses and a course can be taken by multiple students.

Introduction to sheets

This video shows you what you can do with a sheet. Sheets are spreadsheet-like interfaces for viewing, adding, deleting and updating records in a database.

How to build a sheet

This video shows you how to build a sheet. Sheets are spreadsheet-like interfaces for viewing, adding, deleting and updating records in a database.

How to build a table report

This video shows you how to build a table report. Table reports support grouping, sorting and filtering, and incremental full-text search.

How to build a column report

This video shows you how to build a column chart. You can add query parameters to any kind of report. This video shows you how.

How to set up cascading query parameters

This video shows you how to set up query parameter dropdowns so that the selection in the first dropdown dynamically filters the options available in the second. Note that queries and query parameters work the same in reports, sheets and forms.

How to build a time series chart

This video shows you how to build a time series chart. In a time series chart, Visual DB lets zoom in on a specific time period or slide to a different time period.