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The start screen of my app prompts user to create an account. For this account creation I want to capture a lot of details, not just username & password.

I will need their full name, address, email address, contact number etc. I want these to be saved to the database and then later in the app, which is a form, I want these values to be read from the database and to populate these fields later in the app.

Can someone please give me instructions about how this can be done in the easiest, most straightforward way?

Thanks!

Hi Jennifer,

You can start here. There are a lot of examples:
http://docs.appery.io/tutorials/#Appe...

See settings for registration and signing up in our docs: http://docs.appery.io/documentation/b...

Contact us if you have any problems implementing this.

I have spent time looking through these tutorials and the documentation you sent and I don't think it really helps me. They only deal with basic account creation such as username and password, I have this working perfectly but it is the next part I am struggling with.

Our tutorial contains examples of work with an extra field "email" (http://docs.appery.io/documentation/b...)
You'll have few extra fields, but idea is the same.
Do you have any specific questions?

Great, that should help with the initial profile creation.

Can you tell me how exactly I am autopopulate certain fields in my app (which is a form) by pulling this information the database (where the profile is saved).

I presume it is through creating a service and mapping but I am not sure of how to execute this successfully.

Thanks

Hi Jennifer,

Have you already tried? Do you have any problems implementing this?
Let's solve the existing problems instead of possible. Please try and let us know if there are any issues.

I am not talking about possible problems, I am asking how to do it. Like I said I presume it is a service but I don't know which type of service, is it create,read, list or query? It is this basic information I am seeking.

Hi Jennifer,

Create is for creating, Read is for reading, List shows a list and Query searches by the specified query condition.

Thank for you that explanation but unfortunately that does not answer my very specific question above. In order to pull the profile information from the database what database service do I need, from your explanation I would imagine is both query and list but I haven't seen a option to do both?

Let me know if my query is not clear.

If all user info is in the Users table (not in a DB collection) you have to create REST service (not Database Services) with parameters described here http://docs.appery.io/documentation/b...
You can get X-Appery-Session-Token for this service request from login service response http://docs.appery.io/documentation/b...

This link also should be useful for you http://docs.appery.io/documentation/r...