The following sections show how to use the Form Designer to create a simple VCL Forms application that shows the basic FireDAC objects needed to connect to Act-On from any application. See Writing Data Access Code to work with these FireDAC components from code.

The following example populates a TDBGrid control.

1. After Establishing a Connection and creating the TFDPhysActOnDriverLink and TFDConnection objects, drop a TFDQuery object onto the form and set the properties below:

   Connection	Set this property to the TFDConnection object, if this object is not already specified.
   SQL	Click the button in the SQL property and enter a query.
   Active	Set this property to true. This executes the SQL query to Act-On.

2. Drop a TDataSource object onto the form and set the following property:

   DataSet	In the menu for this property, select the name of the TFDQuery object.

3. Drop a TDBGrid control onto the form and set the following property:

   DataSource	Select the name of the TDataSource.

4. Drop a TFDGUIxWaitCursor onto the form. This is required to avoid a run-time error.