Data entry fields – user defined display mask

RefTracker Data dictionary fields can be defined to only allow the data stored in them to be displayed using a user defined display mask. This functionality can not only be used to allow encrypted fields to only ever be displayed unencrypted, but it can also be used to allow stored data to be displayed in more useful ways, for example the data field may only store the variable part of a URL. In fact whatever programmable display mask you want to define can be accommodated.  

This means that the value stored in the field/s set up to use this function will always be displayed as something else – for example:

The data in the field could be encrypted, and the display mask will define how to unencrypt it, so that it is stored encrypted but always displays in RefTracker as unencrypted.  In this example the stored data might be      RxFmhUUprPbjIhrm5A5Agr     and it might display as      123456789

Or, the data in the field might be just the variable part of a URL, and the associated display mask defines the (hyperlinked) URL that should be used to display that information.  In this example the stored data might be       12345   and it might display as   https://www.altarama.com/record=12345

Or, any other rule that can be specified programatically.

Contact Altarama if you want to have one or more fields displayed using a display mask. Altarama will add the display mask to the data dictionary definition for the appropriate field.