Home → Using LincDoc 3.1+ → Database Lookups → About Database Lookups
LincDoc database lookups (also referred to as simply "lookups") are designed to read data from external databases and prepopulate data into a LincDoc form. A lookup can be configured on one or many fields to refine a search to a single or many records. To enable a lookup, a LincDoc administrator must first fully understand the data being read and the field types being prepopulated in the LincDoc form. The process starts by configuring a datasource at the LincDoc server level using the Databases dialog box. Once configured, a lookup can be defined and configured on a specific field in a LincDoc form. Although a lookup may be configured for a specific field, it can be reused on multiple fields inside multiple forms.
A LincDoc lookup is made of two parts: