Field Type

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

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, and zero integer value

Real number

Container for a rational number value

Currency

Container for a 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

Boolean (Checkbox)

Container for a true/false value

Single-choice list

Container for a selected string of text

Radio buttons

Container for a selected string of text

Multiple-choice list

Container for a strong that is a concatenation of selected strings of text

Checkboxes

Container for a strong that is a concatenation of selected strings of text