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Generating field objects

The “Entity Import” section of Chapter 4, "Preparing to Build Application Objects," discusses the fact that there are objects in the Progress Dynamics Repository to describe the fields in your application database tables so that you can use them to build other objects containing those fields. The Repository objects that represent database fields are called DataFields. Each DataField describes a field from a database table. Associated Attribute Value records describe the field’s attributes or properties, such as its data type, format, and so forth. If you select the option to Generate DataFields in the Entity Import utility, as recommended in that chapter, then the framework creates all the necessary Repository records to represent your application database fields at that time. As described later in this chapter, you can also generate these DataFields using the Object Generator.