CA Ideal uses a number of special terms to describe the organization of the data the application developer uses during the creation of an application. The following paragraphs explain these terms and their relationship to CA Ideal.
An entity is a set of rules that govern the data structures CA Ideal uses. Specific entities are described as follows:
Entity type-An entity type is the classification of an entity according to its function. CA Ideal uses six entity types: system entities, user entities, dataview entities, program entities, panel entities, and report entities.
Entity occurrence-An entity occurrence is a uniquely identified instance of a particular entity type.
In CA Ideal, each entity occurrence has a corresponding definition. There are six types of definitions that correspond to the six entity types:
Note: In the remainder of this document, the CA Ideal term definition is used in place of the term entity occurrence.
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