So formidable is basically a relational table system. So, I suggest to Formidable (not sure if they monitor this) that they create a shortcode that could be placed in a view that can be used to get values from the related table.

For example, let's say I'm building a job posting system. I have the following Formidable forms with their fields:

Companies
- Company Name - entry_id = 1
- Company Logo - entry_id = 2
- Company Email - entry_id = 3
- Company City - entry_id = 4
- Company State - entry_id = 5 Positions
- Position name- entry_id = 6
- Position Pay Range - entry_id = 7
- Position Qualifications - entry_id = 8

Job Postings
- Company (lookup to Companies table - single select list) - entry_id = 9
- Position (lookup to Positions table - single select list) - entry_id = 10
- various other fields....

So, now I want to display a list of the job postings on a page in say a table with the following info on each row:

Company Logo
Company Name
Position
Position Pay Range
Company City
Company State

In order to do this currently I have to create a series of views:
1. Main view to create the table.
2. View to return the company logo as an image tag.
3. View to return the Position Pay Range as a string.
4. View to return the Company City and State as a string.

This is very cumbersome and really clutters up the admin panel. Not to mention having to setup all the filters on theme to return the right data.

So my proposition would be to create a shortcode that would be something like this:

[frm-query form="Companies" entry_key="Company Name" entry_value="9" column="Company Logo"]

This would go to the Companies table and query where Company Name is the value in the entry_value parameter (entry_id 9). This would then return the value of the requested "column", in this case the url to the logo file.

This would help remove a lot of these annoying little views.

I'm certain this could be expanded upon to a great deal to accept additional tags that are relevant to the column type being requested, such as "show_image=1" to return the image tag and not just the url on an image file upload, or "show_link" to return an href link for an attached file etc.

Additionally, perhaps the entry_key and entry_value params could be allowed to accept a comma separated list to indicate AND operator for getting results where both values match or a ";" delimited list to perform an OR operation.

Am I just crazy or would this be a nice addition?