Field Types¶

The field type tells IMan how to treat the data within a field.

IMan employs a dynamic, or weak, data-typing policy, which means a field's data type is inferred from the context in which it is being used.

See the Transform documentation for type handling information.

Note

It is good practice to set the data types for a field correctly, as incorrect typing may lead to incorrect or erroneous results.

Field Types recognised by Iman¶

Any textual data

Default Value - “” (empty string)

Any whole numbers

Default Value - 0

Whole and decimal numbers

Default Value - 0.0

Values that can be evaluated to true or false.

Default Value - False

Date and time values.

Default Value - 12:00AM

Any binary data.

Default Value - Null (the binary representation)