Opening an Existing Field Definition

You can open a field definition in several ways:

• Select File > Open from the menu.

  From this dialog box, you can view all available fields in the database. You can open all fields of a certain type or from a specific project, or you can open a specific field or set of fields.

• Clone an existing definition.

  To create a field definition with attributes similar to an existing one:

  1. Open an existing field definition.

  2. Select File > Save As.

  3. Enter a new name and click the OK button.

• Open a field from the project workspace.

  Double-click a field from the project workspace to open a field definition window in the definition workspace.

• Open a field from the record.

  Open an existing record definition. When the record definition window opens, you can:

  1. Select a field.

  2. Right-click the field.

  3. Select View Definition from the pop-up menu.