Each field has a specific type. The type determines how a field appears and behaves, what form of data is stored, how it is stored, and how it is displayed and formatted for external destinations during export or synchronization.

Fields of all types have the following parameters: Name — Textual, case-insensitive field identifier that can include spaces Hint — Textual prompt for field data entry

Field Types

A field may have any of the following types.

Text fields

Text fields are containers for text in a library

Text — Basic container for textual data Rich Text — Container for formatted textual data

Number fields

Number fields can be incremented, decremented, used in calculations, used as arguments to mathematical functions, such as in aggregation, etc.

Integer — Container for a positive, negative, or zero integer value. Can indicate units of measure. Real number — Container for a rational number value. Can indicate units of measure. Currency — Container for an international currency value Integer values — An alternate container for an integer value

Date and time fields

Date — Container for a calendar date value Time — Container for a time value DateTime — Container for a date/time value

Credential fields

Password — Container for a password value

Media fields

Image — Container for image data Audio — Container for audio data

Logicals and list fields

Checkbox (Boolean) — : Container for a single true/false value

Single-choice List — : Container for a string of text selected from a list of strings

Radio Buttons — : Container for a string of text selected from a list of strings

Multiple-choice List — : Container for a string that is a concatenation of text strings selected from a list of strings

Checkboxes — Container for a string that is a concatenation of text strings selected from a list of strings

Link fields

Link To Entry — Link to an entry of a specified library Link To File — Container for the textual link to a file of a platform file system Hyperlink — Container for a textual Internet link

Scripting fields

Calculation — Container for the result of a calculation expression written in Memento Script JavaScript — Container for the result of a calculation script written in JavaScript

Contact fields

Contact — Container for a contact Phone number — Container for a string representation of a telephone number Email address — Container for a string representation of an email address Signature — Container for a signature

Miscellaneous fields

Barcode — Container for a barcode Location — Container for a geographic location Rating — Container for a rating