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PROPERTY

Instructs AssetMaker to create a new property and provides the name for the column in the table and the name for the field in the CS-Direct forms.

Syntax

<PROPERTY 
NAME="column name"
DESCRIPTION="field name">

Parameters

NAME (required)

The internal name of the property, that is, the name of the column in the database table for this asset type.

If you use "URL" as the first three letters of the column name, Content Server recognizes it as a URL column (or upload field).

If you specify that this column is a URL column, Content Server stores the data entered for this field as a file in the external storage directory identified by the DEFDIR parameter for the ASSET tag.

DESCRIPTION (required)

The external name of the property, that is, the name of the field in the CS-Direct forms.

Description

Nested within each pair of PROPERTY tags are the STORAGE, INPUTFORM, SEARCHFORM, and SEARCHRESULTS tags that define the data type that the column stores, the format of the field, and on which forms the field appears.

Example

This code fragment shows one PROPERTY statement, including its STORAGE, INPUTFORM, and SEARCHFORM statements:

<ASSET>
<PROPERTIES>
<PROPERTY NAME="height" DESCRIPTION="Height">
  <STORAGE TYPE="INTEGER" LENGTH="4"/>
  <INPUTFORM TYPE="TEXT" WIDTH="4" MAXLENGTH="4" REQUIRED="NO" 
  DEFAULT=""/>
  <SEARCHFORM DESCRIPTION="Height" TYPE="TEXT" WIDTH="4"
  MAXLENGTH="4" VERB="="/>
    </PROPERTY>
...
...
</PROPERTIES>
</ASSET>

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