Best way to coordinate data between CB & Table

I'm setting up a site that stores data entered by users in a database, each user will be able to add data for a number of items depending on the subscription level which is controlled by Community Builder Subs.

I've set up a table in mySQL and users can upload data (successfully) through a form built in Chronoforms, but I'm wondering whether there is a way to connect that data to the user through CB?

Should I have set up the data table within the tabs section of CB? And if so, is there a way to allow each user to upload from 1 - 1000 lines of data? Or is it better to do this through a separate table in the DB as I've set it up thus far?

And does anybody know how to populate some of the fields in a Chronoforms created form with the data already provided by the user after they have logged in through a Community Builder log-in? The item registration form is available to registered members only, so they've already logged in when they get to the form.

For instance, can I populate the 'Hidden' fields within a Chronoform with things like firstname, lastname, username, since the client has already logged in?

Any help is appreciated, I've got the concept, but structuring it effectively is a challenge! Please don't say "activate the CB plug-in" because I did that and can't figure out how exactly to make it all work! Yea, I need the Chronoforms / CB Plugin for Dummies explanation...

Hi NiceIce,

Starting at the end the CB Plugin is to setup CB+Joomla Registration through a ChronoForm. As your users are already registered it probably isn't useful to you.

You can pull any other info into a ChronoForm if you can find the data in an exisiting table. The Profile plugin can help with this. If I remember correctly though the problem with some of the CB data is that the records are dynamically created so you may need to look up in one table to find the definitions for the fields and then get the data from another table.

I don't know about connecting to the data through CB, I'm not that familiar with CB.

There's no fundamental reason why you couldn't upload 1000 lines per user - there might be some practical problems though.

Bob

Thanks Bob, I appreciate the insight - it saves me hours of trying to figure out if the CB plug-in would have worked to connect the various CB tables to the forms I'm creating with ChronoForms! I think the CB data structure is a little too convoluted for my level of experience at this point so I'll just have to figure out another way to do that, at least I have a direction to go in now!