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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. | 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 days entry | |||
== Field Types == | == Field Types == | ||
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==== Text ==== | ==== Text ==== | ||
Text fields are the basic container for textual data. The text is stored using [[Wikipedia:UTF-8|UTF-8 encoding]]. | |||
==== Rich text ==== | ==== Rich text ==== | ||
Revision as of 10:03, 21 August 2016
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 days entry
Field Types
A field may have any of the following types.
Text fields
Text fields are containers for text in a library
Text
Text fields are the basic container for textual data. The text is stored using UTF-8 encoding.
Rich text
Number fields
Number fields can be incremented, decremented, used in calculations, used as arguments to mathematical functions, such as in aggregation, etc.