eCASE provides out of the box data types that can be used for declaring variables, parameters and returns. The out of the box data types could be primitive types like int, bool, long, decimal, etc. or non-primitive types like ActionOffice, CaseFolder, DataRow, etc.
The following table describes the list of out of box data types:
DataType | Description |
|---|---|
string, bool, int, decimal, long, DateTime, Any, Byte | These are primitive datatypes |
ActionOffice | Represents an office that can be assigned to a folder or a user |
ActivityInfo | Represents an activity for a workflow process. |
AppType | Represents an eCASE Application. Its properties contain settings and configurations of the application. |
AttachmentInfo | Represents an attachment in a folder. It has properties that describe the attachment. |
AttachmentType | Represent a type of the document attached to the folder. Each document belongs to a single attachment type |
CaseAttachment | Represents an attachment content in List of Byte. It also has all properties of AttachmentInfo, allowing user to access attachment information. |
CaseField | Represents a custom field configured for the case type. Its properties mainly describe details on the field’s database column, database table name, and database field ID. |
CaseFolder | Represents a case folder. It includes core properties that describe the basic settings and information about the case folder. When creating a CaseFolder datatype, user can specify case type to have access to the case type’s custom fields as properties. When doing so, custom fields will be displayed as properties in their internal names and user can access them to retrieve/set values. |
CasePage | Represents a case page that is displayed in case folder page as either a button, view dropdown, or tab. |
CaseType | Represents a case type and its features and settings. |
CaseWorkflow | Represents a casetype workflow. |
ChoiceListValue | Represents a choice list value with its Id and Value as its properties. |
Contact | Represents a contact defined in the eCASE platform. Its properties include the contact’s detailed information such as name, ID, prefix, email, etc. When creating a Contact datatype, user can specify contact type to have access to the contact type’s custom fields as properties. |
ContactType | Represents a contact type defined in the eCASE platform. Its properties include necessary information about the contact type such as name, ID, internal name, description, etc. |
DataRow | Represents a single data row that contain values for their corresponding field names (column names). List of DataRows is returned when querying a SQL statement using GetRows procedure. DataRow can be used as a parameter in FieldValue procedure along with a field name to retrieve value corresponding to the field name. |
Dictionary | Represents a dictionary that can only have string datatype as its key. Its value can be of any datatype. Dictionary manipulation is done through Dictionary procedures under Utility procedure folder. |
FileLink | Represents a file link for a given case folder. |
FileListValue | Represents the data in FileLink datatype’s Files property. |
FormInfo | Represents a form template. Its properties include template ID and template name. |
LinkMenuItem | Represents a single toolbar item found in case folder page. |
List | Represents a list that can have any datatype as its element. List manipulation is done through List procedures under Utility procedure folder. |
Record | Represents a record under a repeating group. When creating a Record datatype, user can specify case type and group name for the record to have access to record’s custom fields as properties. |
Role | Represents a role defined in eCASE platform. |
RoleAssignment | Represents a role assignment where its properties include Principal, which includes user information, and Role |
UpdatedField | Represents a field in the UpdatedFolderData datatype |
UpdatedFolderData | Represents the folder data which has been updated by the UpdateFolder procedure |
UpdatedRecord | Represents a record in the UpdatedFolderData datatype. |
UserGroup | Represents a user group in the eCASE platform. |
UserInfo | Represents an application user in the eCASE platform. |
WorkflowActivity | Represents a workflow activity, and is also an underlying datatype for WorkflowProcessActivity |
WorkflowAssigneeType | Represents a workflow’s assignee type |
WorkflowAssignment | Represents a workflow assignment, and is a property in WorkflowProcessActivity and WorkItem datatypes |
WorkflowProcessActivity | Represents a workflow’s process activity |
WorkItem | Represents a work item for a workflow |
WorkItemInfo | Represents a workflow workitem information that is used as a property in workflow related event handler parameters |