Internal/CSV
The native Budibase datasource.
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The native Budibase datasource.
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This datasource is the one that is native to Budibase. Any data you add here is stored directly on your Budibase instance.
Creating the table itself is pretty straight forward. Go ahead and enter a name.
Next up you have a number of "Auto Columns" you can pick and choose from. These columns will tell Budibase to add some extra information when new records are added or updated.
For example, selecting Created by and Updated by will add data to your records who created or updated the record is. Selecting Created at and Updated at will show you when a record was created and updated. The Auto ID option will add an auto incrementing ID column to your records so you can keep track of them more easily.
There's also a Generate screens in Design section option. Selecting this will auto generate screens in the front-end. We will talk more about this when we get to the Design section.
If you already have some data in the form of a CSV you can upload one here. Let's take a look at that. If you want to play around with a sample you can go ahead and use the one that has been added below.
When you have uploaded your CSV you will be presented with a number of new options. One for each column. It will look something like this:
Before you create your table you need to select what types each column should have. At the moment you can select between Text, Number, Date, Option and Boolean. It's very important that you select the correct thing here as the type is what determines much of what you can do with it later on in the Design section.
As only you know what your data looks like you will have to pick what makes sense here. Text is generally used for things like descriptions, long-form content, IDs containing letters among other things.
Number is a type that you should use when working with numbers; sales numbers, number of items in some inventory, revenue, profit, etc.
Date is for things like date of sale, shipping dates and so on.
Options can be used when you want a user to be able to pick between a number of different options. For example. In the Sales CSV that we imported above there's a Sales channelcolumn. It has two options: online and offline. When a user wants to add a new sale, this will allow them to pick between these two options rathern than type it in manually - much less error prone.
Picking something that does not make sense will result in a warning next to the column.
Once you have imported or created a table you see it added to sidebar on the left under Sources. If you want to add or edit new column types you can do so by clicking the Create column button or by hovering on one of the already existing columns and clicking on the small edit button that appears.
When creating a table from scratch (not importing) you have access to some extra datatypes such as attachment, Long form text, Relationship, Formula and Auto Column. We explore these in more detail on the Data types page.
Adding data is simple. click the Create rowbutton and you will be presented with a modal. Fill in all the data and hit save. If you set up your column types correctly when you created or imported your table you will now see the correct controls here. A date picker, option picker, etc.
