Counter field

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

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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 - Recaptcha3 - Relation - Search - Secret - Set - Storable - Subject - Subobject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url - Uuid

Inheritance

• Metadata
  • Int field
    • Counter field

Description

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

Properties

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

Database

Counter fields are stored in the database as

fieldname INT(11)