How Pipelines Process Forms

When the data structure is populated (via a pipelet), it can be acted upon (controller) by the various components of the affected pipeline (template, form-specific pipelet or script) to render the data on a browser (view) or save it to a database.

The following diagram illustrates the flow of information to and from the:

  • Page in the browser
  • In-memory data structure created by a pipelet as defined by the form definition
  • Application