Maintaining Your Data Model › Creating User-Defined Field Types › Name and Text

Name and Text

You must specify a 3-character mnemonic for the field type you define. You cannot duplicate existing field type mnemonics.

You can also add explanatory text to a field. The text will appear next to the field name shown on the Display Object Attribute panel.

You should define a unique 2-character mnemonic code, which will be used to generate field names for fields of the same field type. The field name mnemonic will be defaulted to the first two letters of the 3-character field type.