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What are components?

Think of components as modules that can display or be used to input data. There are currently seven types of components in Alpha Five. Below you see two common ones, a grid component and a dialog component.

In this example, the grid component is displaying data from the customer table. Grids can use data from both Alpha Five tables (DBF's) and from ADO / AlphaDAO data sources. This includes data from DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and most other popular database backends. The data in this case happens to come from a table stored in a Microsoft Access MDB file. This required absolutely no programming

Below the grid is a dialog component that visitors can use to book appointments online.

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Once built (we'll show you how on the next page), your components are then inserted onto web pages (you'll see how to do that, too.).

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