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Edit Field Properties

Click [Next] to continue, unless you are manually defining a file using a file layout.If necessary, change the field name, the column title, the data type or even ignore the field.

Click a field name to select it. Click Ignore for fields you do not want to include. Any field that is empty of data will automatically be marked Ignore.

When you have finished, click [Next] to continue.

PRINT (Like $1,234.00) and NUMERIC (Like 123400) Field Types

In the Data Definition Wizard’s Edit Field Properties panel, the Type drop-down list contains descriptions of data types, not the actual data type names.

In some cases the description differs somewhat from the name. The data type name is always used in the field definition to ensure backward compatibility with earlier versions of Analyzer.

For example, in the Wizard’s Final panel you will notice that fields you had earlier identified using the Print (Like $1,234.00) description are referred to as having the PRINT data type, while fields you had earlier identified using the Numeric (Like 123400) description are referred to as having the NUMERIC data type.

This is not an error. All versions of Analyzer use the data type called PRINT to describe formatted numeric fields (containing dollar signs, commas and decimal points) while using the data type called NUMERIC to describe unformatted numeric fields with an implied number of decimals or a consistent hard coded number of decimals.