About Field Rules

The field properties and rules that you define for family fields determine how fields will behave when users view them in datasheets.

If you have defined a rule for a field that will affect the way it appears or behaves in a datasheet, you may want to test the field rule. To do so, follow this workflow:

Configure the family field properties as needed.
Add the field to the datasheet.
Compile the family.
Open a new datasheet for the family.

If you need to make additional changes to a field, repeat this workflow, but omit step 2. After you add the field to the datasheet, any changes you make to the field rule will be applied automatically to the datasheet.