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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 IMan Integration documentation for type handling information.

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

Text

Any textual data

Default Value - “” (empty string)

Integer

Any whole numbers

Default Value - 0

Decimal

Whole and decimal numbers

Default Value - 0.0

Boolean

Values that can be evaluated to true or false.

Default Value - False

Date

Date and time values.

Default Value - 12:00AM

Binary

Any binary data.

Default Value - Null (the binary representation)