# How To Use Scaffolds

Scaffolds are a tool by which you can very rapidly create basic user interfaces for editing the contents of a database table. By default, a single scaffold creates events that can do the following:

- Display a "master list" of records in a table

- Display an editing form capable of editing both a record's data and its relations to other tables (one-to-many and many-to-many)

- Display a read-only view of a record

- Update a record's data

- Delete a record

By learning to properly use scaffolds and modify the code they produce, you can greatly reduce your development time for database-driven tasks.