type

This word has many uses in PRPC.

Property types

For a property, the type is one of the values in the following table. Only properties with a Value mode or Java mode properties have a type.

Type

Description
Date For a date with no time. The internal representation follows the ISO 8601 standard and does not indicate a time zone. The internal format is YYYYMMDD, for example 20071125.
DateTime For a date and time of day, including a time zone, stored internally with the format yyyyMMddtHHmmss.SSS zzz, for example 20071125T152360.452 GMT.
Decimal Fixed decimal number, positive or negative, stored internally as a BigDecimal Java object.
Double 64-bit floating point number, may be zero, positive or negative.
Identifier A text string that contains no line break characters or double quote characters.
Integer Integer, may be zero, positive or negative.
Password A text string that is encrypted after it saved to the database, and never decrypted.
Text Unedited text, which may contain spaces, tabs, and line break characters.
TextEncrypted A text value that is encrypted on the clipboard and the database.
Time of Day A time of day, with no time zone or date.
True or False Boolean, two-valued.

This attribute of a property is recorded in the General tab of the Property form.

When overriding a property with a property in a higher version, the type of the new property can be narrower than that of the original property. The opposite is not true; you can't override a property with a narrow type with another of a general type. See More about Properties for allowed overrides to the type.

Like the HTML element <INPUT TYPE="PASSWORD" ... >, properties of type Password are not visible when entered into an HTML form. However, the property value may be visible (unencrypted) on the clipboard until the page containing the property is saved to the database. In contrast, the value of a TextEncrypted properties is encrypted on the clipboard and in the database, but can be selectively decrypted for specific users or situations.

Do not confuse the Identifier property type with Java identifiers, a subset of Identifier values with additional restrictions.

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