Understanding Property Sheets
Each Contenta Object has an associated Property Sheet that contains the Object's Properties.
Some Property Sheet data:
- can be viewed in the Contenta applications and be modified by users assigned the appropriate privileges. See Is Field Modifiable? to determine if a field can be modified by users.
- can be viewed in the Contenta applications and may not be modified.
- may be hidden from view in the Property Sheet in the Contenta Explorer, and therefore cannot be seen or modified.
All Property Sheet fields and default values can be viewed using the Contenta Administrative tool, pcmadmin, and the sysadmin user can modify the default values and configure permissions to modify the values in the Contenta applications.
See Accessing the Fields For Property Sheet Window to display all Property Sheet fields for an Object type.
Note the following about the database tables:
- An Object’s Property Sheet bears the same name as the Object. For instance, the Property Sheet for CompoundAscii is named CompoundAscii.
- A Property Sheet is a table in the database. For example, the CompoundAscii Property Sheet is a table named CompoundAscii.
- Names in the Property Sheet fields are the names of the rows in the database table. For example, the Contenta database contains a table for CompoundAscii. This table contains information about the CompoundAscii Objects in the database.
The CompoundAscii table contains rows that match the names in the Property Sheet for the CompoundAscii Object such as Name and Access Level.