Enter the number here. If a user or activity attempts to assign a longer value to the property, the clipboard does contain the longer value, but also has an associated message.

If you associate the standard control FixedSizeForInput with this property, the system uses this value to define the size of HTML input textboxes. Use the similar FixedSize control to apply this limit to both input and display presentations of the property.

This field is visible only for Value mode properties.

Optional. Use to this field in special situations, to compare and sort values of this property in ways other than the natural sort sequence for the Type . If you leave this blank, the system uses a built-in sort order based on the Type.

Identify here a function rule in the Pega-RULES:Sort library or a custom function in a custom Sort library. For a custom function, enter the ruleset name, a colon, and the sort function name.

This field is visible only for Single Value mode properties.

Identify the second key part of an access when rule ( Rule-Access-When rule type) that controls whether or not the clear-text or encrypted value appears in reports and forms. Design the access when rule to be true for those operators, situations, and times when the clear text of the property value is to appear, and false otherwise. See Implementing and using the TextEncrypted type.

If this property is to hold text that is composed using the RichTextControl control and so might contain HTML markup such as <b> or <h2>, select pxFilterRichText. This standard edit input rule deletes potentially insecure markup from the input value while retaining the legitimate display markup.

When users complete and submit a form containing a value for this property, the system first applies the edit input rule. This rule may transform the input text. Next, it applies the edit validate rule, which may cause a message to be added to the property indicating that the property value has failed validation.

This field is visible only for Value mode properties.

• Leave blank if you do not anticipate any benefit in making this property an exposed column.
• Choose Required or Recommended to record your intent that a database administrator extend a database table schema to expose this property. These choices cause this property to appear as a candidate for column exposure in the Database Class Mappings gadget and Modify Database Schema wizard.

The other choice Optional is equivalent to blank.

See Property optimization using the Property Optimization tool and Data Model category — Classes and Properties landing page.

Marking a property as transient, when appropriate, improves performance by reducing the size of the Storage Stream property value (the pzPVStream property and column). While on the clipboard, the property can have values of any length.

Select only for properties — Single Value or aggregate — that have values thatdo not need to be saved in the database.

If you mark a property as transient, but saved instances of objects already exist in the PegaRULES database, the values of this property are removed only when and if those objects are later opened and then recommitted.

This restriction is meaningful only for Single Value, Page, or Java Property properties.

Select to turn on the pySpecial restriction for this rule. If selected, users cannot directly enter a value for this property on an HTML form. This restriction improves system security and reduces the chance of errors that can occur when one property is in some cases computed and in other cases directly input.

Such properties are sometimes called special properties.

• For the standard qualifier pyDecimalPrecision, enter a literal constant integer such as 2 to indicate how many decimal places are to be presented when this property value appears at runtime. (Use pyDecimalPrecision only with properties with a Decimal type.)
• For the standard qualifier pyMinimumLength, enter a literal constant minimum length, such as 10.
• For the standard qualifiers pyUnits and pyCurrency, identify an application property (found at runtime on the same page as this property) that holds the units or currency code applicable to this property.