Starting a "Brownfield Application"

[mfreeman-xtivia]

I wonder if you have any thoughts about how you might start a Form.io application, particularly the form builder, in brownfield scenarios, namely where you already have existing data and can access metadata for it.

Imagine that I have some existing relational databases in the enterprise, for which I can access the metadata that defines columns and data types. I'd like to leverage the form builder to build forms for further editing of this data, but do so in such a way that I could give a designer a head start on field definitions in the form by examination of the table metadata.

So in this scenario, I could default all text fields to be simple text boxes but would like to then let the user potentially assign drop down boxes instead of text inputs for editing them, add validation etc. Is such a scenario been addressed or do you guys primarily envision using Form.io for green-field, build-the-form-from-scratch kind of applications?