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External length

This field type is the length of the field displayed or printed on a report. This is the number of characters or digits allowed for the field on display panels or print files. Fields with decimal positions are entered as total number of digits, number of decimal places. For example, for a field to contain 999.99, the length would be 5.2.

See the chapter "Maintaining Your Data Model" for more information on defining a field type with differing lengths between external and internal fields.