Managing the Data Dictionary
Aspen stores all of your
As an Aspen system administrator, you access the Data Dictionary to perform the following tasks:
- Reference the list of tables and their fields for adding fields to custom reports or templates.
- Enable fields to mass update.
- Create user-defined fields.
- Create user-defined help for fields.
- Enable fields for spell-checking.
- Enable tables and fields to appear on the audit trail.
- Build a reference table for a field, and manage reference codes.
- Restrict access to data by organization level.
- Use record-level security to restrict user roles from using or viewing certain records.
- Enable warnings when records are deleted.
- Create comment banks and associate them with fields.
- Lock system table data based on date.
After you make any changes to tables or fields, you need to reload the Data Dictionary.
Note: Aspen uses Extended dictionaries to define fields for forms, such as forms for the Special Education view. |