Description

R

Text to identify and characterize an object or activity.

Example:         Chemical Analysis

Data Type

R

Categorizes a characteristic and shows the format for entering characteristic values.  Examples include character, numeric, and date formatts.

Example:         Character format

Number of Chars

R

Total number of characters that can be entered when assigning a value to a characteristic.

    This field appears after selecting "Character format" above.

Example:         30