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Defining Entity Type Attributes

For each attribute of an entity type, you can record the following information:

• Name
• Description
• Optionality
• Source category (basic, designed, derived, auto number)
• Domain (number, text, date, time)
• Length
• Number of decimal places (numbers only)
• Case sensitivity (text attributes only)
• Permitted values
• Default value or algorithm
• Derivation algorithm (derived attributes only)
• Aliases

Following illustration shows an example to define the properties of an attribute HANDICAP_INDEX: