How to maintain extended attributes

DataWindow Designer provides facilities you can use to create, modify, and delete display formats, edit styles, and validation rules independently of their association with columns. The following procedure summarizes how you do this.

StepsTo maintain display formats, edit styles, and validation rules:

  1. Open the Database painter.

  2. Select View>Extended Attributes.

    The Extended Attributes view displays listing all the entities in the extended attribute system tables.

  3. Do one of the following:

    NoteCaution If you delete a display format, edit style, or validation rule, it is removed from the extended attribute system tables. Columns in the database are no longer associated with the entity.