Class form
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Ordinarily, this tab is completed by one of these two tools, and no changes are required. The special case described below is an exception.
Field | Description |
External Table Column Mapping | Optional. Leave blank unless this class is an external class that represents a table in an external database (generated by the Connector and Metadata Accelerator or the Database Class Mappings wizard), or you are replicating scalar embedded properties as described below. Fields in this section map the properties generated for the class rule to the columns in the external table. |
Column Name | For generated class rules, the name of a column in the external table. |
Property Name | For generated class rules, the name of the property that represents the table column in the Column Name field. |
For a concrete internal class, you can use this tab to expose match an embedded Single Value
property in a database column.
For example, the embedded property .pyPreferences.pyCaptionDisplay for a user who is a developer records a preference for whether that operator wants to see rule names, or Description text. (This property has one of the two values NAME or LABEL, as selected on the Preferences menu item, View group.)
If it was important to use this embedded property as report selection criteria, the property must correspond to a column. Use these steps to make a (scalar) embedded property available as a database column.
pr_operators
. The DBA created a text column named CAPTIONDISPLAY. (You can't use the Modify Schema wizard to add this column, because there is no property named CAPTIONDISPLAY.)This feature provides a direct but limited alternative to creating an Index- class and maintaining the index through a Declare Index rule, or to replicating the value to a second (top-level) property using a Declare Expression rule or Declare Trigger rule.
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