What Is an Info Field?

An info field, or information field is a cBase or model component that contains data that supplements or supports dimension data.

A model can have a maximum of 32 dimensions. Therefore, when a Diver developer builds a model, he defines the data that is most likely to be dived on as dimension values. To ensure that the model does not exceed 32 dimensions, the developer can use information fields for data that is unlikely to be dived on. For example, phone numbers. However, if you want to dive on info field data in a model, you can promote an info field to dynamic dimension status.

When defining cBases, Spectre does not have a dimension limit, which can lead to having too many dimensions to display at once. During a Spectre build, you can simulate the info field concept by using the required-dimension or suggested-dimension tags in the build script. For more details, see the Spectre Build topics in Workbench Help.

TIP: Numeric info fields can be used in calculations.