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Alter Attribute statement

Modifies an attribute within a project.

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ALTER 
 ATTRIBUTE attr_nameIN [FOLDER]location_path[HIDDEN (TRUE 
 | FALSE)] [NAMEnew_attr_name] [DESCRIPTIONnew_desc][LONGDESCRIPTIONlong_description] [FOLDER new_location_path] [REPORTDISPLAYFORMS 
 (Form1 [, Form2 . . .[, FormN]]| NONE)] 
 [BROWSEDISPLAYFORMS (Form1 [, Form2 
 . . .[, FormN]]| 
 NONE)] [ELEMDISPLAY (LOCKED | UNLOCKED | LIMITnumber_of_forms)] [SECFILTERSTOELEMBROWSING 
 (TRUE | FALSE)] [ENABLEELEMCACHING (TRUE | FALSE)][MULTILINGUAL 
 (TRUE | FALSE)]FOR 
 PROJECT project_name;

where:

  • attr_name is the name of the attribute to be modified, of type string, between double quotes (").

  • location_path is the folder where the attribute resides, of type string, between double quotes (").

  • new_attr_name is the new name of the attribute, of type string, between double quotes (").

  • new_desc is the new description of the attribute, of type string, between double quotes (").

  • long_description is the new long description of the attribute, of type string, between double quotes (").

  • new_location_path is the folder into which the attribute is to be moved, of type string, between double quotes (").

  • formN is the form to be displayed in a report, of type string, between double quotes (").

  • number_of_forms is the maximum number of forms, of type integer.

  • project_name is the name of the project, of type string, between double quotes (").

This statement can only be executed in a Windows environment.

Example

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ALTER ATTRIBUTE "Day" IN FOLDER "\Schema 
 Objects\Attributes" NAME "Duplicate_Day" FOLDER "\Schema 
 Objects\Attributes\Time 
 REPORTDISPLAYFORMS ID BROWSEDISPLAYFORMS ID ELEMDISPLAY 
 UNLOCKED SECFILTERSTOELEMBROWSING TRUE ENABLEELEMCACHING TRUE FOR PROJECT 
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