Data types

Ability understands many types of information:

In addition to these basic data types, Ability can also work with:

Ability recognizes that all of these different types of information have unique requirements for data entry, storage and formatting. When you create a field in the design window, you must choose one of the ten standard data types, and appropriate formatting for the type of field (see step 3 of Creating fields in a database). As the most common type of field, the Character data type is the default.

The following sections explain the various field data types (Character, Numeric, Date/Time, Memo, Incremental, Calculated, Logical, Enumerated, OLE) and their associated formatting properties.

See:

Character

Numeric

Date/Time

Memo

Incremental

Calculated

Logical

Enumerated

OLE