Default Table Structure

Access this form with Administrative user rights using Organization>Default Table Structure.

Use this form to view all fields in the system. You may want to look in the system to determine all acceptable values for each field.

 

Filters: The filter is for display purposes only; it simply allows you to limit which items are displayed in the Available Items table.

  • Available Filter, Selected Filter: Select an item in the Available Filter column, and click the Mover ( > ) to move it to the Selected Filter column. Once an item is in the Selected Filter column, set up its filtering criteria. Then, the table is limited to the data that falls within the designated filter criteria. Your choices for filtering items are: Table Name, Field Name, and Module.
  • Compares To: Select an operator from the drop-down list. The operator compares the value in the Selected Filter column with the values in Criteria 1 and Criteria 2 to determine which items are displayed in the Available Items table.
  • Criteria 1: Enter a value to compare with the item in the Selected Filter column. When using Like or Not Like, you can use "%" to represent any number of characters.
  • Criteria 2: Enter a value for the end of a range if the Compares To column contains the Between or Not Between operators.

Available Items Table: Records are initially sorted on the first data column in ascending order. However, records can be sorted based on any column by clicking on the column heading.

  • Records per Page: Select how many items per page to display using the Records per Page drop-down list. You can view items in the table in increments of 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, or 1000. The default setting for the Records per Page drop-down list was selected using the Options>Customize Workstation Settings>Preferences tab.
  • Table Name: The table where the field information is stored.
  • Field Name: The field name identified by the system. Most of these field names correspond to a field name on a form. All field names begin with common letters that identify a field's function.
  • Field Identified

    Field Type

    Example

    dtm

    date

    dtmDocDate

    s

    string

    Description

    d

    double

    dDocID

    cur

    currency

    curAmount

    guid

    number

    guidUserIDf

    n

    integer

    nOrderID

    ysn

    yes/no

    ysnSuta

  • Field Description: A description of the designated field. Often the description also contains acceptable values for the field.
  • Field Size: This is the default size assigned by the system. Some fields are user defined; therefore, this field size may have changed.
  • Module: The system displays the module associated with the designated field. The available modules are as follows (depending on which ones are installed):

  • AB

    Accounts Receivable Billing

    AM

    Allocations Management

    AP

    Accounts Payable

    AR

    Accounts Receivable Reporting

    AS

    Advanced Security

    BG

    Budget

    BK

    Bank Reconciliation

    DD

    Direct Deposit

    EN

    Encumbrances

    EP

    Electronic Funds Transfer for A/P

    FA

    Fixed Assets

    FD

    Forms Designer

    GA

    Grant Administration

    GL

    General Ledger

    MC

    Multicurrency

    OE

    Order Entry

    PO

    Purchase Orders

    PR

    Payroll

    RQ

    Electronic Requisitions

    SY

    Administration

  • When filtering data, select Operators to determine which data to display. Also, view a list of Filter Examples that are useful throughout the system and examples of How to Use Wildcards characters with Like and Not Like.
  • In the Available Items table, you can sort the data based on any column. Simply double-click on a column heading to sort according to that column.
  • The sorting functionality is only for table display and does not affect printing. Print uses the data from the database and is therefore not reflective of how the items were sorted.
  • This is a very lengthy table; therefore, you might want to filter by module, then print the data.
  • To see a table which defines user defined field lengths and identifies default values (if any) for fields that are importable (such as chart of accounts, offset account assignments, vendors, and charge codes.), you can review the documentation for the File>Import form.
  • The field size displayed in this table is the default size assigned by the system. Some fields are user defined; therefore, adjustments may have been made to the field lengths when the current organization was created (File>New Organization).
  • For larger organizations with many records, you may want to clear the "Use Drop-Down List on Find Forms" using the Options>Customize Workstation Settings>Preferences tab. By doing so, it eliminates the time it takes to load this form.