Field datatypes reference

The following is a short reference to the characteristics of the different field types.

For details, see Field datatypes.

text: A one-line text string.
multitext: Multiple lines of text.
enum: The value in this field is required to be from a list of specified values, defined at the Support Site.
(See The dbconfig file, for details.
multienum: Similar to the enum datatype, except that the field can contain multiple values.
enumerated-in-file: Similar to enum, but the allowed field values are listed in a separate file on the gnats server.
multi-enumerated-in-file: Similar to enumerated-in-file, except that the field can contain multiple values.
date: Used to hold dates.
integer: Used to hold integer numbers.