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SmartDataEntryAdapter

Fills an entire panel of bound controls from one block of unstructured text.

Attaches to Container controls

Where the object adapter targets a single type, the data-entry adapter targets a whole container — a panel, a tab page, a form region — and distributes extracted values across the controls inside it.

Paste a customer's email into a contact form and watch name, company, phone and address land in the right fields. It is the fastest path from copied text to a completed data-entry screen.

The adapter reads the layout you already built — labels, bindings and control types tell it what each field means. There is no template to author and no mapping file to maintain; the form itself is the schema.

What it gives you

  • Populates many bound controls from a single source string.
  • Maps extracted fields onto the controls in a container.
  • Removes repetitive manual transcription from intake screens.

Use it for

  • CRM intake from copied email signatures
  • Claims and case intake from free-form descriptions
  • Moving paper and PDF forms into live screens

Like every adapter, it runs through a SmartHub and inherits its SmartEndpoint — switching the model or provider never changes this code.

csharp
var hub = new SmartHub(this) { Endpoint = endpoint };

var entry = new SmartDataEntryAdapter {
    Container = contactPanel
};

await entry.RunAsync(pastedEmailText);
// Name, company, phone and address fields are filled in.

Read the SmartDataEntryAdapter docs ↗