Change Property Dialog Box
Change the names of one or more project properties, the property type and the internal name.
To display this dialog box:- Click the Tasks button and browse to Project Table and Project Operations → Change Entry Property
- In the Project Table panel, choose Data → Edit Properties → Change Property
- in the Project Table panel, choose Table → Change Columns → Edit Display
- Features
- Additional Resources
Change Property Dialog Box Features
- Search text box
- Filter button menu
- Property list
- Display tab
- Internal tab
- Search text box
Filter the contents of the property list so that only the items that match the expression in the text box anywhere in the property name are displayed. You can use the wildcard characters
*for zero or more characters and?for a single character, and square brackets to enclose a range of characters. The filtering is done as soon as you type in the text box. To remove the filter, click the clear button
.- Filter button menu
This button opens a menu with sorting and subset items. You can choose sort the list in one of two ways: Alphabetical or Project table order, and you can filter the properties shown in the list to those in the chosen subset. The subsets include the defined property families and two other items, All primary, and Shown (the properties that are shown in the Project Table). If you choose one of the subsets, its name is displayed below the filter text box, with a close button
so you can remove the subset filter. In some instances, a filter is preselected when you open the dialog box.- Property list
List of properties for selection. You can use the standard click, control-click and shift-click actions to select multiple properties. The selected properties are highlighted in the list. If you filter the list, any properties that are already selected that do not match the filter are listed below a separator in the list, with the filtered list above.
If you select multiple properties, the choices of what can be changed in the Display tab are restricted to Show in Project Table, Decimal places displayed, and Use scientific notation (E), which can be set for multiple properties. All other options are disabled, as they can only be applied to a single property.
The property list is updated and settings are reset if you add, delete or change a property while this dialog box is open.
- Display tab
Set display properties in this tab.
- Internal name text
Internal name of the property. You can change the settings that are used to construct the internal name in the Internal tab.
- Property display label text box
Set the label to be displayed in the Project Table and other locations. This label is the name shown in the heading row of the Project Table. It is usually derived from the internal name by stripping off the type and family fields and replacing underscores with spaces. The name must be unique within the project.
- Show in Project Table option
Display the property column in the Project Table.
- Decimal places displayed text box
Set the number of decimal places to display for the property.
- Use scientific notation (E) option
Display the property in scientific notation, e.g. 1.05E-4.
- Internal tab
Change internal settings for the property. This tab is not available if multiple properties have been selected, as its settings apply only to a single property.
The internal name has the format type
_owner_label. The type is a single character, which identifies the property as an integer (i), a real number (r), a string (s), or a Boolean (b). The owner identifies the program that generated the property, or more generally the source of the property, and is related to the default property family. The label gives information about the property itself. See Property Names for more information.- Internal name text
Internal name of the property. The settings below change the internal name, and are reflected in this text display.
- Property name text box
Set the name (label field) of the property. This name is used by default to generate the property display label. It should not contain spaces; use underscores where you want the display label to have spaces.
- Family option menu
Select the family to which you want the property to belong. Sets the owner field in the internal name.
- Data type option menu
Select the data type for the property, from integer, real, boolean, or string. Sets the type field in the internal name.