Dictionary

A dictionary is master data: customers, items, warehouses. A list of records plus their fields. It has no subtypes. State that changes over time belongs on a document or an information register.

Note

Do not declare ID. The server creates it (and ParentId when the dictionary is hierarchical). Do not declare author fields — see Identity.

A field's type is an EDT or an inline baseType. Integer is Integer, not Int. An optional Boolean is generated non-nullable: unset equals false. Name the flag so the working value is false (IsDisabled, not IsActive).

The event handler may be empty. The owner does not call next. A command on a dictionary appears on the card; it does not need a menu item.

Without a menu item the table exists and the user cannot open it.

Display format ({Name} ({Code})) is the closed-field text of a reference to this dictionary. Lookup properties (lookupProperties) are the columns of the dropdown — the designer tab of the same name, also a Lookup tick on each field. Empty defaults to Code plus the display-format fields. Another model overlays extras and hides via lookupPropertiesAdd / lookupPropertiesHide on its extension aggregate. See the reference lookup.

Objects of this kind#

• Customer
• Bank
• Item
• LegalEntity
• PriceType
• UnitOfMeasure
• ItemUnit
• TaxProfile
• SalesContract — behaves like a catalog on the card; treat it as this kind until a separate contract kind exists

See also#

• EDT
• Number sequence
• Menu
• Model
• Document — operations that point at this catalog

Where next#

• Create a dictionary
• Customer
• EDT