Working with Fields

The system displays each piece of information in a record in a different field (in a detail view) or column (in a grid view). Taken together, all the related fields on a form typically constitute one record. Fields represent the most basic bit of information in a record.

In this section, you can find the following information about fields:

• Types of fields
• The significance of background colors in fields
• Lists in fields
• Date fields
• Changing or deleting specific field values
• Use of graphics or other binary objects in fields