Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Repository Reference

Field conventions

Fields in the Repository use the following conventions:

The field name should be between five and 29 characters long.
The valid characters for field names are lowercase “a . . z” and the underscore ( _ ).
Field names should be as specific as possible. For example, use “customer_name” rather than “name.”
Fields in different tables that can be used as join fields should have the same name.