Data Providers Overview
Data providers enable services for establishing the connection between the data you want to display and the data source you want to use.
- A data provider is an abstraction for data which describes a single URI (OData and Progress Data) or base URI (Generic REST).
- The endpoints in the data providers can be either protected or not. The definition of a data provider identifies the authentication model which is required to access the data server it supports.
- You can define the OData and Progress Data providers by a schema file on the web server and generate all child data sources based on that schema.
- You can create multiple data providers.
- You can define one or more data sources from the same data provider.
Supported Services
The data services deliver access to one or more resources which provide the data.
Data Sources
The data sources are located within the data providers and represent the datasets which you can bind to the views. They can be created automatically or manually and you can also modify them to show all or only specific fields.
