Create or Modify a Code Domain

  1. Open Genus Studio.
  2. In the Directory tree, click the Object Classes folder.
  3. To create a new code domain, in the File menu, point to New, and then click Code Domain. To modify an exisiting code domain, right-click the code domain in the table to to the right, and then in the shortcut menu, click Open.
  4. In the Name box, type a name for the code domain.
  5. In the Description box, type a description for the code domain.
  6. To allow users to aggrgate data from other Object Classes along objects from this code domain, click the Allow this Object Class to be used as a dimension when aggregating data check box.
  7. To specify a symbol for the code domain, click Change in the Symbol box and select a bitmap file. Note that the size of the bitmap can be a maximum of 16x16 pixels.
  8. Click the Data Entries tab.
  9. In the Data Type box, click code_domain_data_type_selector.png and select the data type for code values. Code values can be of type Integer,Stringor Object Class_._ If code values are string based, in the Data Size box, type or select the maximum number of characters the code value can hold. To create a code domain used to derive a complex type, select Object Class in the Data Type box.
  10. In the Data Entries list, add new or modify existing codes. To add a new code, click Add. To modify an existing code, click Modify. If you have selected a simple data type, such as Integer or String, each code is defined by a code value, a display name and a screen tip. If you have selected Object Class as the data type, the code is defined by a reference to an Object Class in your app model, and the name is the object class name, which can be modified within the code domain. Note that code value of type String which contains character as underscore (_) and period (.) is not valid.
  11. To change the order of the codes, select a code in the list, and then click Move Up or Move Down.
  12. Within a code domain, you can mark a code as default. The code marked as default will be used as the default value for properties on objects with a link to the code domain. To mark a code as default, select the code in the list, and then click Set Default.This option is not available for code domains with a data type equal to Object Class.

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