This article describes data source functionality in the #Grid Custom Field#.
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The data sources allow specifying how to You can connect the grid to an external data source, located on a remote web-service. You can reuse a connection in multiple grids. |
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The Data source type is REST. We support only JSON for processing data. You can access remote REST API using data sources in the #Grid Custom Field#. |
Data source configuration
You can add a Data source under the Data Sources tab in the grid configuration.
Available fields:
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You can specify the direct path to an array inside the JSON with the help of JSONPath expressions. Data may be interactively found and extracted out of JSON structures.
JSONPath expressions always refer to a JSON structure. Since a A JSON structure is usually anonymous and doesn't necessarily have a "root member object". Thus the JSONPath assumes the abstract name $ assigned to the outer level object.
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