Tutorials
From DreamFactory
This section consists of short, example-based tutorials for the most common DreamFactory use cases.
Topics in this section include:
Contents
Setting up API Services
- Database and server side scripting support by host type
- Connecting to SQL
- Connecting to NoSQL
- Connecting to File Storage
- Connecting to Email Services
- Connecting to Push Notification Services
- Connecting to Remote Web Services
Using the REST API
Upgrading your app
Users
- Creating users
- Logging in
- Logging out
- Open registration
- Confirming new users
- Setting up guest access
- Basic auth
- Access using API key
- Access using JWT
- Access using JWT and API key
- Refreshing a JWT
- Forever sessions
- Using forever sessions
SQL and NoSQL Data
- Querying records with logical filters
- Querying records with an ID list
- Querying for a single record by ID
- Querying records in a date range
- Specifying fields
- Sorting records
- Paginating records with limits and offsets
- Posting records
- Updating records
- Deleting records
SQL-Specific Data
- Querying multiple tables with joins
- Posting data to multiple tables with joins
- Querying SQL views
- Calling stored procedures
- Calling SQL functions
Files
Push Notifications
Remote Web Services
Scripting
V8 Javascript
- Field validation example
- Push notification workflow rule example
- Custom scripting service 'add' example
- SQL + NoSQL example
Node.js
Coming soon!
PHP
User Management & Security Settings
Role-Based Access Control
- Setting up user roles
- Setting up application default role
- Accessing SQL tables
- Accessing NoSQL collections
- Record-level access control with server-side filters
- Accessing documents
- Accessing email services
- Accessing push notifications
- Accessing remote web services
- Enabling script access
- Using role lookup keys
Single Sign On
Active Directory
- Importing Groups as Roles
- Mapping Roles to AD Groups
- Retrieving AD Groups
- Retrieving AD Users
- Retrieving AD Computers
