Fields tab

The Fields tab is where you define properties for the fields being exported. The following table describes each field:

Field

Description

Name

The name of the field

Type

Type of the field can be either String, Date or Number.

Format

An optional mask for converting the format of the original field.

Length

The length of the field depends on the following field types:

  • Number

Total number of significant figures in a number.

  • String

Total length of string.

  • Date

Length of printed output of the string (for example, four is a length for a year).

Precision

Number of floating point digits for number-type fields.

Currency

Symbol used to represent currencies ($5,000.00 or €5.000,00 for example).

Decimal

A decimal point can be a period (.) as in 10,000.00 or it can be a comma (,) as in 5.000,00.

Group

A grouping can be a comma (,) as in 10,000.00 or it can be a period (.) as in 5.000,00.

Trim Type

The trimming method to apply to a string. Trimming only works when no field length is specified.

Null

If the value of the field is null, the specified string is inserted into the output text file.

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