Snowflake Connector

A Premium connector for direct connection to a Snowflake database. 

Our platform enables you to quickly and easily connect your Form Entries to a Snowflake database.

This enables a one-way synchronization to occur - where any Forms Entries are pushed to tables in a Snowflake database.

Before you add a Snowflake Connector, you must ensure a valid Snowflake Connection set up on your organization.

• Adding a Snowflake Form Connector
• Configuring a Snowflake Form Connector

Adding a Snowflake Form Connector

The Form Connectors page can be accessed from your Form designer, settings, or the Screens listing if you mouse over the Form row in question. 

Once you are on the Connectors page, setting up a Snowflake Connector is easy: 

• Click on the ADD CONNECTOR button (top-right corner) to see a list of the available Connectors.
• Then click the Snowflake option. 

This will refresh the page and display your Connector, ready for configuration. 

Configuring a Snowflake Form Connector

Next, configure the following:

1. Warehouse
   The Snowflake Warehouse containing the database to which you need to connect to.
   
   
2. Snowflake Database
   The Snowflake database that you need to connect to
   
   
3. Schema
   Enter the optional Snowflake database schema where the table is stored. If kept empty the default schema will be used
   
   
4. Data Columns

   Defined which form fields to populate as row values in your target dataset.

   Upon your first Form entry, each selected Form field will auto-create a column of the same name if it does not already exist.
   
   

5. Table Name

   Specify the database table that will receive entry data for this Form.
   If left blank, a default table name will be generated using the Form External ID.
   
   

6. Auto Maintain Table

   When enabled, the target database table will be created and maintained by our platform.
   This is a recommended setting, as columns will be automatically added/altered as the Form design changes between versions.
   
   

7. User URL Media Fields
   

   If enabled, media filenames will be converted to their full URL.
   
   

8. Replace Placeholders with Display Text

   By default, placeholders will be replaced with the raw answer value from the form entry.
   For example, Date values are stored as UTC time in ISO 8601 raw format, e.g. 2015-10-23T15:05:07Z.
   Select this option if you wish to replace it with user displayed text instead, e.g. 23-Oct-2015 05:05:07 assuming your time zone is UTC-10.
   
   

9. Fill Repeat Rows

   Repeated data (e.g., repeatable pages and table rows) will be exported as separate rows.
   When this option is selected, all non-repeat answer values are copied down into each repeat row.
   This can be useful for cases where other systems are importing these rows, and those systems need to process all answer values on every repeated row.
   
   If you wish to instead have NULL values for non-repeat answers in repeat rows, deselect this option.

   The following are NOT affected by this option:

   • ENTRYGUID, ENTRYGUIDFULL, ITEMNO and UTCNOW
   • Fields that appear within a table or repeating page
   • Formulae that reference a repeating field
     
     
     

10. Anonymize Personal Data: If enabled, data from fields marked as Personal Data will be converted to a non-human-readable format to aid privacy. 
    
    At this stage, your Connector is ready to go.
    Hit the SAVE button to save your changes and activate the Connector.