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Maintaining Entity Display fields

The Entity Maintenance window has a browser that lists all the fields from the selected table. If you selected the toggle box to Update Display Field List in the Entity Import utility, then all fields in the table except for object ID fields have their Include flag set to YES. This setting means that the framework, by default, includes them in the field list for automatically generated browsers and viewers, as described in Chapter 5, " Using the Object Generator." If you did not select the Update Display Field List toggle box, then all fields initially have their Include flag set to NO. In either case, you can adjust the field list for the selected table by double-clicking on the Include cell for any field to reverse its setting.

Also, notice the Include in default list view radio set. This option lets you distinguish between including the field in viewers and list views like browsers. If you leave this set to Use Default, then the Include in default view setting determines whether this field will appear in browsers and other list views by default. Otherwise, choose Yes or No to determine if it should be included in browsers and other list views.

You can also adjust the Display Field Order, the Field Label, the Field Column Label, or the Field Format by selecting the corresponding cell and editing it. Choose Save to save these changes along with any other data you entered for the table.

The default Display Field Order is based on the order defined in the database schema. The Label, Column Label, and Format were all initialized from the schema information.

Once you have adjusted the entity information for the tables you have imported, you are ready to generate SDOs and other objects to get you started developing the parts of your application that will use them. Chapter 5, "Using the Object Generator," explains how to do this.

Note: When you select a data field in Entity Maintenance, you can access more properties of the field by displaying the Dynamic property sheet.