Data Entry Fields

The data forms you create can contain a wide range of Vermont Views-defined data entry fields:

• Character, a standard C data type.
  
  
• String, a field for entering strings.
  
  
• Boolean, a special character field that accepts one of two specified values.
  
  
• Check box, similar to a Boolean field, allows the user to place a mark by a field to indicate whether it was selected or not.
  
  
• Single- and double-precision float, standard C data types.
  
  
• Integer, short integer, and long integer, standard C data types.
  
  
• Decimal, a numeric field with a fixed decimal point. The numeric value is stored as a long integer, and the position of the decimal point is stored separately.
  
  
• Time, a field for formatted entry of times.
  
  
• Date, a field for formatted entry of dates.