What is a Field?
Fields are numbers, text, or dates that make up the data displayed in a Query. They generally come from a Datasource populated with metadata from a database. Fields appear as columns within a Query.
Every Field has a data type, determined when the Field is first brought into Informer 5 as metadata. Some of the more common data types are:
- Boolean: true or false values.
- Numbers: integers and decimal values.
- Strings: text, keywords, and full text.
- Dates and times: date, time, or timestamps (date and time combined).
- Location: formatted latitude and longitude coordinates.
- Object: some other formatted Field, such as JSON, XML, or BLOB.
Also available through the REST API
Everything on this page is built on Informer's public REST API, the same one the product uses, so your scripts and integrations can do it too. Developer reference: Queries.