Entity

ENT

Entities are

• Tangible objects, such as customers and orders.
• Intangible objects, such as projects and job titles, about which you want to record information.

Field

FLD

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

Function

FNC

Functions are processes and procedures that define the functionality of an application.

Panel

PNL

Panels make up the user interface of your application. You typically inherit panels from libraries, which give you a general layout, and then make changes to them.

Table

TBL

Tables are the physical structures where data is stored.

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 an application. They show their attributes and the relationships between the objects.

Value

VAL

Values hold information, such as the choices in a list box.