Attribute type
An attribute type determines the nature of the information held by the attribute. An attribute type can be either a basic type or a reference type. There are following basic types:
- Plain Text, used for non-formatted textual information such as a person's name or address.
- Number, used for monetary, countable or other numerical data.
- Yes/No, used for information that can be described by one of two possible values, such as yes/no, on/off, etc.
- Date, used to hold dates.
- Timestamp, used to hold a moment in time including the date and the time parts.
- Duration, used to hold a time interval.
- Picture, used specifically for images intended to be displayed on the object form.
- Document, used to hold document data such as text, report, scanned picture, web page, digitised sound, etc.
- Shortcut, used to display data of a related business object.