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== Description ==
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This field represents an integer whose default value is an incrementing integer (1,2,3 ...).
  
 
== Inheritance ==
 
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== Description ==
 
This field represents an integer whose default value is an incrementing integer (1,2,3 ...).
 
  
 
== Properties ==
 
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== Required Phrases ==
 
== Required Phrases ==
No additional phrases required.
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No additional phrases.
  
 
== Database ==
 
== Database ==
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== API ==
 
== API ==
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See [[API:EPrints/MetaField/Counter|API page]].
  
 
== Examples ==
 
== Examples ==

Revision as of 08:20, 21 March 2023

EPrints 3 Reference: Directory Structure - Metadata Fields - Repository Configuration - XML Config Files - XML Export Format - EPrints data structure - Core API - Data Objects


Metadata Fields: Arclanguage - Base64 - Bigint - Boolean - Compound - Counter - Dataobjref - Date - Decimal - Email - Fields - Float - Id - Idci - Image - Int - Itemref - Keywords - Langid - Longtext - Longtext_counter - Multilang - Multipart - Name - Namedset - Pagerange - Recaptcha - Relation - Search - Secret - Set - Storable - Subject - Subobject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url - Uuid


Description

This field represents an integer whose default value is an incrementing integer (1,2,3 ...).

Inheritance

Properties

name default description
digits n/a This property is taken from the repository configuration.
sql_counter n/a REQUIRED. This property is taken from the repository configuration.

Required Phrases

No additional phrases.

Database

Counter fields are stored in the database as

fieldname INT(11)

API

See API page.

Examples

Most basic example. sql_counter is required but typically would be set to the same as name.

{
    name => "mycounter",
    type => "counter",
    sql_counter => "mycounter"
}

Typically, you would not want to allow a value for this field to be imported or cloned as it is an auto-incremented field.

{  
    name => "subjectcounter", 
    type => "counter", 
    required => 1, 
    import => 0, 
    can_clone => 0, 
    sql_counter => "subjectcounter" 
},