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Data dictionary editor - File and main index properties

The fields displayed at the top of the main screen are read-only properties relating to the data dictionary as a whole and to its main index.

Fields

The total number of fields, including both key and data.

Key fields

The number of key fields.

Key length

The total size in bytes of the key fields. This must be within the range 1-195 bytes.

Record length

The total size in bytes of all fields. This must be within the range 4-32767 bytes.

Indexes

The number of secondary indexes.

The File Info button opens a window containing the following file properties, which are optional free text relating to the file and can be used for any purpose.

Title

File title.

Comment

Four lines of comment text about the file.


RELATED TOPICS

Data dictionary editor

The main field table

Secondary indexes