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Integration with third-party data sources can be achieved in your apps using the Connect & Search and the Connect commands in app behavior. Before designers can use these commands it's first necessary for the connections and associated actions to be set up in your PerfectApps account. The tutorials in this section cover how to manage this administration task.

To learn how to use the connections in app design please check the App Design Video Tutorials

 

 

Connections Dashboard Overview

Connections Overview

(1 min)

A powerful feature of PerfectApps is the ability to integrate with third party data sources such as databases, directory services and others. More information is available in this tutorial video.

Creating a Database Connection

Creating a Database Connection

(2 min)

Watch this tutorial to see how to create a connection to a specific database.

Creating a Select Action

Creating a Select Action

(3 min)

Once a connection has been configured, certain actions can also be configured. Watch this tutorial to see how to configure the most commonly used Select action.

Insert, Update & Delete Actions

Creating Insert, Update & Delete Actions

(4 min)

Connections can also be configured that will modify the data source. This tutorial covers the methods used to configure Insert, Update and Delete actions in a Database.

Connection and Action Permissions

Connection and Action Permissions

(2 min)

Learn how to control which PerfectApps user may use your connections and which can modify them.

App Connections

App Connections

(4 min)

Within the PerfectApps environment it's possible to use apps as a data source for other apps, useful if you don't have reasonable access to an external database system. Watch this tutorial to see how this type of connection is configured.

OpenAI Rest Web Service

OpenAI Rest Web Service Connection

(6 min)

This tutorial will demonstrate creating a REST Web Service connection and action to the OpenAI API within the PerfectApps connections dashboard.

There is a follow-up tutorial in the App Design Video Tutorials section that demonstrates how to connect an app to the REST Web Service connection created in this tutorial.

 

 

See Also: Overview Video Tutorials, App Design Video Tutorials, Report Design Video Tutorials, App Management Video Tutorials, Report Management Video Tutorials, Notifications Video Tutorials, System Administration Video Tutorials

 

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