Fixed Length of Entity

Physical size of the entity or included entity, in characters.

Description

There is no restriction on the length of an entity or the number of occurrences it can contain, so there is no default for this field.

You should define a fixed length for an entity if:

  • The entity is an included entity. Specify the number of bytes available in the remainder of the occurrence in the parent entity.

  • You want to override the way Uniface generates the length of the overflow table in a record-level DBMS.