how are you getting the values from the database? is it in JSON text form?  if so please copy and paste just a sample of the data. also here is a good article on what you are trying to achieve by Stefan Cameron.Scripting Table Columns - Stefan Cameron on Forms (stefcameron.com) 

I believe he is talking programmatically otherwise he would have said "with the file menu".  You are assuming that he says from the file menu which is not stated. lets get his input first. thanks 

try this  

@radzmar yes that is exactly what i am doing from the "remove file" button on the click event i use the getDataObject to refresh the list box."if I remove files from the UI it goes away from the sidebar." the questions remains. Is there a way to capture the event thrown from the sidebar delete butto...

islandgirl23, i made this form so you can visually see the options. in a subform Page1 which has the content positioned, i added 3 subforms   this one below is position content  this one below is flowed content with top to bottom and this one is the one you want, flowed content western text flow dir...

When adding attachments via a user interface:Add button Click event below:  var myDoc = event.target; var sFile = "myFile" + NumericField1.rawValue; myDoc.importDataObject({cName: sFile}); var myDataObject = myDoc.getDataObject(sFile); var sFileName = myDataObject.path; ListBox1.addItem(sFileName,sF...

@GirishBedekar with the response I intent to prefill my pdf. We are not using adaptive forms for this. Just pdf.  So REST API cannot be use with PDFs? 

@GirishBedekar the use case is just to get a JSON String from a database. I wanted to use REST API instead of SOAP web service. I also wanted to use Workbench but I do not see a way for workbench to return a JSON string unless it is programming it with JAVA servlets. So using a HTTP submit button is...