Variable table

You must declare any field that you reference in the entity definition (in the code definition pane) as a variable in the variable table at the top of the page. This tells the Entity Name feature which fields to load from the database, and puts each value in a variable for you to use.

For example, the Contact entity name defines the following variables:


List of variables defined in the Contact entity, including SubType, LastName, and FirstName.

Notice that this defines LastName as Person.LastName and Name as Company.Name, for example.

Use the variable table to manage variables that you can embed in the Gosu entity name definitions. You can add and remove variables using the function buttons next to the table. The columns in the table have the following meanings:

Column name

Description

Name

The name of the variable.

Entity Path

Entity.property that the variable represents.

Sort Path

The values that PolicyCenter uses in a sort.

Sort Order

The order in which PolicyCenter sorts the Sort Path values.

Use Entity Name?

Whether to use this value as the entity display name.