Populating the System Title field after upgrading or migrating
Applies to:
Version 9.0 introduced a new, optional system field that is called Title
(System Fields:Title). The field is a component of object type names and is
designed to store the user-friendly names of object instances.
Background
Previously, the Name field stored only the names of objects. Since names must be unique within a folder path, another field, such as Description, was often used to provide a user-friendly name for objects.
In 9.0 and later, the Name field has separate components to store the Name (ID) and Title of
objects: Name.ID (System Fields:Name) and
Name.Title (System Fields:Title). You can specify which
components to display in views and other areas of the application. For example, you can use the
Title field in a task view. Or you can display both the ID and the Title.
To help you take advantage of the new Title field, OpenPages® includes a script that you can use to populate the Title field with the content from another field.
For more information, see Populating the System Title field.