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Appmachine Data

AppMachine Data allows you to store data and show it in your app. You can also make the data editable in your app for specific user categories if you want.

AppMachine tables

You can create your own tables within Appmachine to show it to your app users. You can even create Edit or Add forms in your app to give your app users the functionalitity to edit your data or add new data. Read the article below or watch the video

Add Table

  1. 1.
    Click Data in the left side navigation
    Add new table
  2. 2.
    Click Create Table
  3. 3.
    Choose from where you want to store the information In this case you select AppMachine Table
    Select where you want to store your data
  4. 4.
    You can create your own Blank table or use one of our Table with some demo data
    Choose your data source
  5. 5.
    Give your table a Name
    Name your table
  6. 6.
    On the Fields tab you can add or enter more fields
    Edit your fields
  7. 7.
    On the Data you can add more items with the Add item button in the top right corner or Edit a row by double clicking on it.
  8. 8.
    After creating a table, you will need to open the Content tab in the left side navigation
  9. 9.
    Click the red +block Button
  10. 10.
    Select the Advanced tab
  11. 11.
    Click Add this block
  12. 12.
    Select the Table you just created to show the information from the Table you just created in your block.

Edit Table

  1. 1.
    Select the Data tab in the left side navigation.
  2. 2.
    Select the right table in the AppMachine Table section
    Select AppMachine Table
  3. 3.
    Select the Fields tab if you want to checkout, edit or add the configuration of the table or select the Data tab if you want to checkout, edit or add rows to the table.

Show data in your app

After you have configured your data, you can add blocks to your app to make the data visible
  1. 1.
    Open the Content tab of your app
  2. 2.
    Click the red + block button
  3. 3.
    Select the Advanced tab
  4. 4.
    Select the List to show a list of items in a screen. The detail page will be added automatically
  5. 5.
    Click Add this block
  6. 6.
    Select the right data table
  7. 7.
    In your app a green List block will be added with a detail page below it.
  8. 8.
    On the List block you can Enable or disable information to show in the list using the switches.
  9. 9.
    For advanced editing, select the Elements tab in the left top corner. This article explains to you how to use the element editor to fine tune the design .
  10. 10.
    You can finetune the Detail page in the same way.