Property Alias form
Completing the Definitions tab

Field

Description

Enter a period followed by the property name (second key part) of the property being aliased. Identify a Single Value property in the class that is the first key part of this property alias rule (or a subclass).

You can create multiple property alias rules that reference a single property.

Optional. Specify a Type value other than the Type in the property, to cause automatic conversion (typecasting) of the value. Only certain typecast conversions are supported. See Data type conversions in expressions.

Optional. To group several property alias rules for purposes of user selection, select a category value.

Select Expression as the Category if these conditions are met:

• This property is computed by a Declare Expression rule from other properties in the same class or a higher class.
• The property is not exposed as a column in the database, and you want to make the property available in reports.

The system maintains values for the Category field as field value rules. To add a category, create a field value rule using:

• Rule-Obj-Property-Alias as the first key part
• pyCategory as the second key part
• The category value as the third key part

Deprecated. Do not use.

Deprecated. Do not use.