Dictionaries

Pro

A dictionary is a list of choices you manage in one place and use in any number of choice fields. A bookshop might keep one Formats dictionary and use it on Books, on Writers and on a user's "preferred format" field. Add "Hardcover" to the dictionary once, and every field that uses it offers the new choice.

Each entry has a label, which editors see, and a value, which is what gets stored. You can reword labels at any time; stored values stay put.

VX also ships read-only system dictionaries for countries, currencies and units of measurement.

A short list you'll only use once, like $, $$, $$$, can stay as choices typed into the field. Once you'd type a list twice, make it a dictionary.

In this section

Creating a dictionaryProAdd entries by hand or in bulk, link fields to the dictionary, and understand what deleting does.System dictionariesProBuilt-in, read-only lists of countries, currencies, and units you can link to any choice field.