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As the application administrator, you determine to what extent the global field dictionary, stored in the TIBCO Object Service Broker @GLOBALFIELDS shared table, is to be used when developers at your site are defining tables. You can customize your development environment to:
• Allow users to create their own fields without warnings about fields not in the global field dictionary
Global fields are not supported in the graphical Table Definer supplied with the TIBCO Object Service Broker UI. You must use the text-based definer if you are going to use global fields.You use the FLDMGR tool to define each global field that is to be included in the @GLOBALFIELDS table. Users, when they are defining tables, screens, or reports can include global fields as part of the definition of the object that they are defining.TIBCO Object Service Broker Managing Data, TIBCO Object Service Broker Defining Reports, and TIBCO Object Service Broker Defining Screens and Menus for more information about defining different objects.TIBCO Object Service Broker Shareable Tools for more information about the FLDMGR tool.Values in the TIBCO Object Service Broker @DT_FLD_CONFIG shared table determine how the global field dictionary is used in your environment. This table, for which you provide the values, determines:If you leave the @DT_FLD_CONFIG table empty, users can create their own fields or use fields from the global field dictionary at their discretion.The @DT_FLD_CONFIG control table has three fields. Specify the values that your site requires as follows:
Specify the type of table (for example, TDS) for which checks must be made against the global field dictionary. Enter one occurrence for each table type that the checks are made against. Specify whether a user can define a field name that is not linked to a field in the global field dictionary. Valid values are:R – a user’s field must be linked to a field in the global dictionary or the user is not able to save the table definition.W – a user is warned that the field is not linked to a field in the global dictionary and is prompted to confirm before saving the definition of the field.N or '' – the field name is not checked against the global field dictionary. Specify whether a user can use different attributes (that is, semantic data type, syntax, display length for a screen or report, decimal, or reference) for a field that is linked to the global field dictionary. Valid values are:R – a user’s field attributes must exactly match the attributes of the field listed in the global field dictionary.W – a user is warned that the field attributes do not match those in the global field dictionary and is prompted to confirm before saving the definition of the field.N or '' – the field attributes are not checked against the global field dictionary.
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