No — they serve different audiences. Formidable Views renders entries on the front-end of your site for visitors (member directories, listings, dashboards). SleekView is an admin-side workspace for the same data, used by staff for triage, audit, and editing. They complement each other: Views for visitor-facing pages, SleekView for the team running the site.

Yes. SleekView writes back through Formidable's entry API where available, which respects validation and fires the standard frm_after_update_entry action. For cases the API doesn't reach (raw meta keys not bound to a field, custom-table data), direct-table writes with conflict detection cover the gap. Choose per-view whether to favour API or direct writes.

Repeater fields create child entries via parent_item_id, each with its own frm_item_metas rows. SleekView either flattens children into the parent row (joining repeater values as a list cell) or shows them as a related child table per parent — your choice per view. Flatten for cross-form audits; keep separate for line-item-level views like order details.

Yes — user_id is a column on frm_items and a first-class filter in SleekView. Joins to users show email and display name inline so you don't have to look up IDs manually. Per-user history filters are useful for support ("what has this user submitted") and for GDPR access-request fulfilment.

frm_forms and frm_fields are exposed as views too. Build a forms-overview table with submission counts per form (joined to frm_items), or a fields-usage table showing how often each optional field gets filled in. Useful for cleaning up forms that have grown unwieldy or finding fields nobody actually uses.

Yes when SleekView routes through Formidable's CRUD APIs — the standard frm_after_update_entry, frm_after_create_entry, and related actions fire as expected, and any add-on listening to them runs normally. For low-level direct edits, hooks fire only on subsequent reads (or not at all for raw meta writes). Pick per-view based on whether side effects are wanted.

Formidable's per-form entry table is replaced by a more capable cross-form one in SleekView, but you can still scope a SleekView to a single form to mimic the original behaviour with extra column flexibility. Most teams keep both — Formidable's admin for individual edits when context matters, SleekView for triage and bulk operations.

Calculated fields store their value in frm_item_metas like any other field, so they pivot into columns the same way. The calculation runs on submission (or on edit, if Formidable is configured to recalculate), so the column shows the persisted result, not a live recalculation. For live recalculation, edit via Formidable's API and the recalculate logic runs as part of the save.