General

Type

All

Type of attribute. This value is read-only

ID

All

Internal identifier. This value is read-only

Attributes

Code

All

This is name of the attribute that is used as an XML tag. The following rules apply to this field:

• Names can contain alphanumeric characters

• Names cannot start with a number or punctuation character

• Names cannot start with "xml"

• Names cannot contain spaces (use the underscore character to represent a space)

Name

All

This is the name that is displayed in the Object Browser. The name can contain spaces.

Remarks

All

Text that describes the attribute.

Values

Choice

Values that can be chosen from the attribute.

These are can be listed in a linear manner as Value 1, Value 2 etc.

Values can also be organized in a hierarchical tree structure. This can be done by inserting a backslash in between values. For example, Value 1 can be written as MyCountry\MyRegion\MyLocation

The above configuration means that MyLocation is located in MyRegion of MyCountry.

Control Type

Choice

Choose from two types:

• DEFAULT is a list in the order that values are entered.

• TREE is hierarchical structure as shown above

Control Type

String

Choose from four types:

• DEFAULT: Text that is manually entered.

• FILENAME: Path and name of a file available on a computer.

• FILE: Name of a file stored in the database.

• HTML: Text with HTML formatting capabilities.

Maximum number of decimal digits

Float

Number of digits behind the decimal point.