Thanks for the tip Tim. That got me started in the right direction. If anybody has to do this, keep in mind that you'll be getting back json with this snippet.

Great, glad it was helpful!

Hi Giovanni, Tim

I'm doing a similar thing where I need to find records that were submitted from a particular pageID, I'm having trouble finding the recordsViewer(), I'm using umbraco 7.3.8, any help would be appreciated

Regards Brendan

The RecordsViewer class does not seem to exist in my Forms 6.0.2 installation. Has this been replaced with something else?

I'm also looking for a light-weight entry-fetcher since Library.GetRecordsFromForm is way too slow and RecordsViewer seem to be obsolete. Umbraco version: 7.5.3, Forms version: 4.3.2.

If anyone else is struggling with this, here's the solution I came up with. It reduced the time for fetching 700 form entries from 15 seconds to 1!

Short summary:

1. Use the GetAllRecords method and set its second parameter (includeFields) to false.
2. Get the content of custom fields by deserializing the record's RecordData property.

Here's the code:

using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Forms.Core;
using Umbraco.Forms.Data.Storage;
using Umbraco.Web;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;

/***************************************************************************/

 using (var formStorage = new FormStorage())
{
    using (var recordStorage = new RecordStorage())
    {
        // Get form by guid
        var form = formStorage.GetForm(formGuid));

        // Get all form records. Note the second, includeFields, parameter of the GetAllRecords method.
        List<Record> recordList = recordStorage
            .GetAllRecords(form, false)
            .OrderBy(x => x.Created)
            .ToList();

        // Iterate over the records
        foreach (Record record in recordList)
        {
            // Get content of current entry's all custom fields
            string jsonData = record.RecordData.ToString();

            // Deserialize the json objects (guid/value) to a Dictionary's key/value pair
            Dictionary<string, string> fieldsDictionary = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, string>>(jsonData);

            // Get state
            string approved = record.State.ToString();

            // Get first name (custom field)
            string firstName = fieldsDictionary[fieldGuidFirstName];

            //*********************************************************************************
            // The part where the custom fields content is assigned to a custom object, which
            // in turn is added to a list, is removed here for readability reasons.
        }
    }
}

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