Entity

ENT

Entities are the tangible objects, such as customers and orders, and intangible objects, such as projects and job titles, about which you want to record information.

Field

FLD

Fields are the pieces of information that you want to record about an entity, such as employee names, item prices, and order statuses.

Function

FNC

Functions are processes that define the functionality of an application. A function is roughly equivalent to a program or method.

Panel

PNL

Panels are the windows and dialogs that make up the user interface of the application.

Table

TBL

Tables are the physical structures in which data is stored in applications that use relational databases.

View

VW

Views represent all or part of the data in a database table. A view itself does not contain any data—you can think of it as a window through which you look at the data in the table.

Diagram

DGM

Diagrams visually represent a subset of the objects in a model. They show objects and the relationships between the objects.

Message

MSG

Messages hold text. You can use the text in error messages, as the caption for windows and dialogs, and so on.