Defining Files and Fields

Before you can work with a new data file, you need to tell Analyzer how to read and interpret the data it contains. A table layout describes the structure and content of a data file and specifies where the table data can be found. It describes the data in each field, identifies the fields that you want to analyze and how to display and print that information. Analyzer’s Data Definition Wizard makes it easy for you to create table layouts for all common data types.

Table layouts can also contain computed fields. Computed fields are “virtual” fields that contain data derived by calculation, often using data from the physical fields in the source file.

Before you can create a table layout, you need to open an existing Analyzer Project or create a new one.

Here you will learn how to work with Analyzer Projects, how to create and maintain table layouts, how to define and maintain fields and how to use conditional static fields to define multiple-record-type files such as report files.