Business Object Settings

To change the settings of a Business Object, you can open the Settings dialog by clicking settings

Field

Description

Article

Here you can set the article of the business object with the values of A or An.

Name

Here you can update the name of the business object. If updated, you will see this link:
"Click here to update the display, plural, and plural display names for the updated name"
You can click the link to update the properties mentioned in the link without having to manually update all the other names.

Plural Name

Here you can update the plural name of the business object.

Display Name

Plural Display Name

Description

Here you can capture a brief description of the business object.

Type

It can take one of the 3 values:

Business Object: This is the default value of a business object
Base Type: This converts a business object to a base type.
External Class

Model this business object is based on

Default value for this field is PersistedModel.

Name of the previous object this replaces

This business object does not connect to a datasource

Check this box for client side only business objects.

Business Object uses the default datasource

Here you can change the default datasource if your application is connected to multiple datasources.

Connector setting

When using a relational database data source, you can specify the following properties that describe the columns in the database.

Property	Type	Description
columnName	String	Column name
dataType	String	Data type as defined in the database
dataLength	Numeric	Data length
dataPrecision	Numeric	Numeric data precision
dataScale	Numeric	Numeric data scale
nullable	Boolean	If true, data can be null

How to change the settings of a Business Object