BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2012 Developer's Guide | BlueCielo ECM Solutions

Creating a property definition

The definition of a property determines its names, data type, and effectivity. Follow these steps to create a property definition:

  1. In the Visual Basic Project Explorer, double-click the name of the interface extension designer in which you want to create the property The Interface Extension design page appears.
  2. Click the Property Set tab.
  3. Click the Add new property  toolbutton. The Property Settings dialog appears as shown in the following figure.
  4. Choose an appropriate setting for each option using the table below. Click OK when you are finished.

Warning    Choose the settings of a property definition very carefully. Although they can be changed later (except for Internal Name), changes only affect the compiled interface extension. If the extension has already been registered in a vault, the properties have already been defined there and cannot be changed; they can only be deleted along with all of the data they contain. Therefore, you should not modify or remove property definitions from an existing interface extension after it has been registered in a vault. However, it is safe to add new property definitions to an interface extension.

Option Description
Type

Choose a data type for the property from the list.
Display Name

Enter a descriptive display name. This text will be a property label in the Meridian Enterprise clients. As you enter a name, the interface extension designer will calculate a corresponding default value for Internal Name that includes a suffix abbreviation that represents the chosen data type.
Internal Name

Accept the default value or enter your own value. You will use this name in your code to identify the property. We recommend that internal names consist of only one word.
Effectivity

Choose an effectivity type from the list. The Versioned type is appropriate for most custom properties.

Related information

About data types

About property effectivity

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