Business record properties

Business records have properties that are set in the Properties view.

Table 1. Business Record properties
Property	Description
name	Record name.
active	The active property indicates that the record participates in the application code generation. It is checked by default when a managed form (4fdm) is created. When a record is inactive, it does not provide the modeling features and cannot be or be linked to a master record.
masterTable	A data set can be composed of several database tables. The master table is a table on which CRUD operations will apply. The generator creates the CRUD operations for a given data set only if its unique key is composed by fields of the master table.
unique key	A data set unique key is a field or a list of fields ensuring the uniqueness of data in the data set. It must be defined as a primary key or a secondary key in the database schema.
Functionality	See Form functionalities (canAdd, canModify, canDelete, canSearch). Only for generated forms and web services.
Query	See Joins and Data order.

Table 2. RecordField properties
Property	Description
name	Record field name.
lookup	See Lookup fields.
fieldType	Used to specify that its data type is derived from the data types in a database table or that it is Non_Database, indicating that the data type is not derived from a database columnSee formFields.
sqlTabName	The `sqlTabName` property is the name of the database table for formField form items.
colName	The `colName` property is the name of the database column.
tableAliasName	Table alias name.
fieldIdRef	Unique reference id of the field in the record.
dataType	See dataType.
defaultValue	See defaultValue.

Table 3. Record Relation properties
Property	Description
foreignFields	The foreign key field(s) in the relation.
primaryFields	The primary key field(s) in the relation.