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The following is a short reference to the characteristics of the different field types.
For details, see Field datatypes.
text
A one-line text string.
multitext
Multiple lines of text.
enum
The value in this field is required to be from a list of specified values, defined at the Support Site.
(See The dbconfig
file, for details.
multienum
Similar to the enum
datatype, except that the field can contain
multiple values.
enumerated-in-file
Similar to enum
, but the allowed field values are listed in a
separate file on the GNATS server.
multi-enumerated-in-file
Similar to enumerated-in-file
, except that the field can contain
multiple values.
date
Used to hold dates.
integer
Used to hold integer numbers.