Advanced Report Design
CentreVu CMS Custom Reports
Creating a Custom Data Table
6-8
2g. Select the type of data that the field
will store.
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The additional prompts that
appear differ depending on
your selected data type.
2h. Complete the definition of the
column by responding to the
additional prompts that appear.
Which prompts appear and what
order they appear in depend on the
data type you selected.
lists the possible prompts.
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When you have responded
to all of the prompts for the
column, a new highlighted
line appears in the table,
and the
Add Name
field
reappears at the top of the
screen.
2i. Repeat Steps 2f through 2h for
each column you want to add.
Table 6-2: Prompts for
INFORMIX Data Types
Prompt
What to Do
PRECISION
Select either
Smallfloat
or
Float
.
PRECISION
appears for the
Float
type.
INDEX
Enter y if you want to make the column an index.
INDEX
appears for all types except
Serial
. A
column with the
Serial
data type automatically
becomes an index.
Make the column an index only if the column will be
used for row searches and the table will contain
more than 200 rows of data.
DUPLICATES
Enter
y
if you want to allow the column to contain
the same value in different rows. For example, if the
column were to contain the last names of people,
you would probably want to allow multiple entries
(because, for example, you might have many
different people with the last name of Smith).
However, if you were creating a column of social
security numbers, then you would enter
n
to
prevent multiple entries of the same number.
DUPLICATES
appears for all types except
Serial
.
Note: The
DUPLICATES
prompt displays if you
answer yes to an
INDEX
prompt.
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