Hi @Bob Dang ， Yes, The formview is similar with the detailview. They only show a single record at a time. However, the difference with them is that: the detailview have a table layout. And the formview don't have the table layout. You need to use template to create the layout. Just like this: This is the Detailview: This is the Formview: Best regards, Yijing Sun If the answer is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and upvote it. Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.

What does it mean that the formview only shows a single record of data at a time? Can you please suggest?

What is the difference between formview control and detailsview, since it seems that both display data in a row format? can you please suggest?

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Yijing Sun-MSFT 7,076 Reputation points

2022-04-22T06:09:18.283+00:00

Hi @Bob Dang ，
Yes, The formview is similar with the detailview. They only show a single record at a time. However, the difference with them is that: the detailview have a table layout. And the formview don't have the table layout. You need to use template to create the layout. Just like this:
This is the Detailview:

This is the Formview:

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Yijing Sun

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2022-04-22T06:12:12.147+00:00

What does it mean that the formview only shows a single record of data at a time? Can you please suggest?
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Yijing Sun-MSFT 7,076 Reputation points

2022-04-22T07:54:50.287+00:00

Hi @Bob Dang ,
According the image I showed to your on above, the formview have three rows.

For example, you have a table and in the table, you have some columns and rows. These are about the details of students. The first row is for the first student and the second row is for the second student and so on.

In the first row, there are three columns. One column is the id of the student, one column is the sex and another column is the phone . They are all information of the first student. We say this is a single record. And the second row, there are also Id, sex and phone for the second student.

In the Formview, because of the format, the formview only could show one row data. And the columns in the table will convert to rows in the formview.

Compared with the gridview or table, they could show many students's information. And the formview only show one student. So, we say this means a single record.

Do you understanding?

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Yijing Sun
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