DB PROPERTIES VIEW TUTORIAL	Home > Articles > PropertiesView
Requirements: PropertiesView 2.4b or newer
See Also: Work with PropertiesView in Design-time , Work with PropertiesView in Run-time

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1. Introducing

DBPropertiesView is version of PropertiesView extended with DB support. Work with DBPropertiesView is completely same as with PropertiesView except:

1. New property DataSource
2. FieldName property for each Item

Work with DBPropertiesView is very similar to any DB component. You need to set DataSource property to some TDataSource component on Form. As usual, DataSource need to be connected to some DataSet (TTable, TQuery, TADOTable...)

2. Set FieldName property for Item

After DBPropertiesView is connected to DataSource, we can start with adding and customizing our Items.

In DBPropertiesView each Item have FieldName property. This property point to TField inside TDataSet with this name. After DataSet is activated, Item will display content of this Field.

As can be seen in Image, some Items may have empty FieldName property and this Items will act as normal Items in normal PropertiesView (you can set MapProperty, set Value property by yourself...). This can be seen in DBPropertiesView Demo Project (in demos\properties\ subfolder).

3. Conclusion

Work with DB-Aware version of PropertiesView is same as work in "normal" version of this component. You can chose Items you want to connect with DataBase and which Items not. TDBPropertiesView is descendant of TPropertiesView and any new feature in TPropertiesView will be automaticaly added to DB version of component.

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