Help with Datastructure Issues
Best Practice on Data Structure Choice
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GeeTrends Posts: 123
5/5/2022
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Hi all,
We're attempting to build an app that will display a member's contact information on a screen and allow a rep to update the info if needed. What would be the best Data Structure to use? The data will be pulled from an external database.
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maurice@decisions.com Administrator Posts: 121
5/5/2022
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Hello GeeTrends,
For the use case you mentioned, I would say an External Entities Data Structure would be helpful. External Entities are meant to assist with managing a table on an external database. To learn more, see https://documentation.decisions.com/v7/docs/external-entities
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Dave Scaglione Posts: 8
5/9/2022
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GeeTrends, can confirm. This is the way to go! I just finished doing this same use case and am using external entities per each table that I need to talk to.
Just make sure to follow these directions closely because I didn't make the connection at first, but once you create the External Entity, you have to actually go in and map each of the different connection/action flows:
Creating External Entities - Creating Data Structures (decisions.com)
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