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direct type

Former Member — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:51:51 GMT

what are the advatages/disadvatages in creating a table with direct type fields i.e fields with out data elements??

Re: direct type

seshatalpasai_madala — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:01:44 GMT

HI,

There are only advantages in using the Data elements.

Since they give a meaning to a field in the data base. By looking at the documentation of the field yo ucan easily know what area this data element belongs to and what it can be used for etc.

WIth fields with DATA ELEMENTS when you use these fields for creating your screen fields you can get the LABELS for the fields you will get the F1 help from the Data element also you can get F4 help if there is any search help association for the data element.

Regards,

Sesh

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Seshatalpasai Madala

Re: direct type

Former Member — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:13:04 GMT

Hi Pavan,

A data element is assigned to the field. The field then gets its

data type, length and possibly decimal places from this data

element. The semantic attributes of the element (field help,

representation of the field in input templates with keyword text,

column headers for list output of the table contents and editing of

the output with parameter IDs) are also copied.

whereas the direct type just gives the data type and length.

so it is only advantageous to use data elements for creating fields.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Kinshuk