Having my first look at UI Builder for a new project in u13. It will involve quite a few custom areas and I am wondering how straightforward they would be to do with UI Builder vs rolling your own. Following the "first integration" guide in the doc, - https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-ui-builder/v/13.ui-builder.latest-lts/how-to-guides/creating-your-first-integration - I have set up a basic SQL table which is showing up in my new section etc and seems ok. However the content I need to work with is more complicated and in an already existing external database. For example, a list which is generated from sysobjects left outer joined with a couple of other tables. How do I even start on getting SQL statements or Stored Procedures in there somewhere? Are there any more complex tutorials out there somewhere on UI Builder? Another question I have, if we don't use UI Builder and diy it in U13, how much rewriting will there be when we switch to 17 in future when 13 is EOL? Thanks very much for any insights!

hi moby! its not examtly what you are looking for, but it might help you out still 🙂 I used this for building something with entity framework: https://24days.in/umbraco-cms/2023/effortless-ui/

Thank you - that looks useful alright, thanks very much

I've used predefined views in one of my projects using EF. You create the EF model to match the view output and use the

ToView

method when configuring the context.