Best Practices for Parent->Child Forms

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My app is starting with a simple screen showing all the customers in a SQL connection. It's only showing 3 fields

Company, Contact, AccountNo (The unique ID, which is hidden).

I want to click that record and naviage to the Customer Detail screen which displays (no edit) the details of the record. What is the most efficient way of doing that without creating multiple connections to the same data set.

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The most straightforward and efficient way of doing that is using a form on your second screen. Please see the structure of an app auto-generated from data. That has some of the same behavior you are looking for, and it provides a model of how things should be wired up.

on Screen1:
gallery1.Items = Customers
gallery1.navButton.OnSelect = Navigate(Screen2, Fade)

on Screen2:
form1.DataSource = Customers
form1.Item = gallery1.Selected

You will have to configure the form to specify which fields to show.

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Perfect. That was exactly what I was looking for. I was not aware of what the Item property was used for in the Form Context.

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Perfect. That was exactly what I was looking for. I was not aware of what the Item property was used for in the Form Context.

Thank you

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All very well but there's no mention of having to create a collection then how to post back to the collection using a patch function. In the real world we dont just look at data we interact with it, edit it, add, delete etc.

Got any of those examples?

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Any news on this ?

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