welcome to another training video from
axon pro today we will be looking at how
to create an app data connection at the
prereqs if you should have already gone
through the video on how to create an
app if you haven't then I highly
recommend that you go through that first
now assuming that you have already
created an app and it's blank the first
thing you need to do is decide what this
app means for your user and what this
happens to do is it going to display
some static information like work
instructions or perhaps it is going to
load data from a database and display it
in a grid or furthermore maybe it is
going to get live data off your assets
like let's say a conveyor belt and
display variable speed or the
temperature inside bearing of a pump so
based on those requirements you will
take next step and you will notice that
any person of the times you would need
to get data from a third party system
from outside now how do you achieve that
well in the app designer inside this
screen you will see there is a button
for app data you can click on that and
that will show you the list of
connections that you already got but
since this is a blank app you you can
see that there is no connection yet so
I'll click on the Add button
and I'll be presented by a list of
connectors that I have available and
that I can use to connect to third-party
systems now what is the connector is a
topic for another video um but for now
we can just assume that connectors would
have already been created by the admin
or the IT
um let's say my requirements are that I
want to display data from from a sequel
table so I'll go ahead and choose
seafood connector and once I choose it
I'm presented with a list of
configuration options that that
connector is asking me for so I'll start
by the name this is a friendly name
which which will just help help us
identify this connection so I'll say for
example Friendster next time I'm going
to configure this connector and it is
asking me for a server name I can use
one of the ones that I got and I want to
use sequel authentication I'll provide
the username I'll then provide the
password but that will do is actually go
ahead and queue that I'm server and get
me a list of all the databases that I
have and the one I want to connect with
this one I can then go ahead and save
this connection and we'll then we add it
to the list of connections in my app now
an important point to note here is that
this connection that we created is going
to be available across all the pages in
my app so it's a one-time exercise you
can figure it once um but you can use it
in all your pages as many times as you
may need so that was the that was how to
create an app data connection in the
next video we hope that we will be
looking at how to use this connection
