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Creating a Property Sheet

A Property Sheet is a table in the Contenta database.

The data for a Property List, Secondary Property Sheet, or Select List is stored in the table.

To create the table, you create a Property Sheet using the Contenta Administration tool (pcmadmin). Creating a Property Sheet is the first step when creating most compound Property Sheet fields.

1. Start the Contenta Administration tool, pcmadmin, in singleuser mode.

2. Access the list of Property Sheets. (see the Accessing the fields for Property Sheet window topic, Step 2 under Managing Property Sheet fieldsin the Dynamic Import section of the Contenta documentation.)

3. Click the New button to access the New Property Sheet window.

4. Define the fields as described in the table that follows.

FieldDescription
Property Sheet Name

Enter a unique Property Sheet name.

The following are Property Sheet naming rules:
  • Property Sheet names must begin with an alphabetic character; there is a maximum of 30 alphabetic or numeric characters. Do not include spaces in Property Sheet names.
  • Only the first 18 characters of the Property Sheet name are displayed. The first 18 characters must be unique.
  • The system automatically creates the Name and Access Level system fields in a Property Sheet. When you first create a Property Sheet using the Contenta Administration Tool, you can assign another label for the Name and Access Level fields. Once the Property Sheet exists, you cannot change these system field names.
  • Because Group is a reserved word in the Oracle database software, Contenta uses Group as the Group Object Property Sheet name.
Name Field Label

Enter a label for the Name field.

If you do not want the field to be labeled Name, indicate an alternate label in this field—for example, Title or Name of Object.

The Contenta Administration tool creates the Name field in the new Property Sheet with the label you indicate here.

After creating the Property Sheet, you cannot change the New Field Label.

Access Level Field Label

Optional.

Enter a new label for the Access Level field. The Contenta Administration tool automatically creates the Access Level field in a new Property Sheet.

You are only be able to enter values in the Contenta Explorer for this field as defined in the Name row of the Access Level table such as secure or sysadmin.

You cannot delete this field, but you can change it’s name or make it not displayable. After creating the Property Sheet, you cannot change the field label.

5. Click Create to access the Fields for Property Sheet window.
  • The Name and Access Level fields are created automatically. You cannot delete these fields.
  • You cannot modify the Default Values now, but you can modify them after the Property Sheet is created (see Modifying Fields)

6. You may define additional fields as required (see Adding Fields).

7. After completing your changes, click Close.