Updating reference data based on user input

Workflow scripting 101

What you'll be learning:

  1. How to let users search and filter the reference data that you bind into your form

  2. How to allow users of your form to call a phone number

    When the user taps the Call button, the dialer of the mobile device pops up with the number already entered

    Figure 95. When the user taps the Call button, the dialer of the mobile device pops up with the number already entered


    or find a location in Google Maps directly from the form with the link control

    A click-to-call and a find on map link next to the phone numbers and addresses in the data-bound table

    Figure 96. A click-to-call and a find on map link next to the phone numbers and addresses in the data-bound table


    If the user has Google Maps or Google Earth installed, it will start and show the address when the user taps the Find link

    Figure 97. If the user has Google Maps or Google Earth installed, it will start and show the address when the user taps the Find link


  3. How to allow the user to make edits to the reference data by binding the reference data into user-editable controls in the form, and writing a server-side script to implement the changes in the cloud