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Community articleView information about fields in a Notes document
Added by IBM contributorJulia Brown on April 25, 2011 | Version 1
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Tags: document, documents, field, fields, 8.5, 8.5.1, 8.5.2
You can use the Field tab of the Document Properties box to look up a field in a Notes document and troubleshoot if it is not calculating its value correctly.
  1. Select the document.
  2. Click File > Properties (or click Alt+Enter).
  3. Click the Field tab to view the following information:
Type of informationWhat the information means
Field NameThe name of the field.
Data TypeThe type of data the field contains.
Data LengthThe size of the data in the
field in bytes.
Seq Num (Sequence Number)Refers to the amount of times the field has been edited. This is used with field level replication.
Dup Item IDIf the document has a field that is too large to fit into one note, it is split into several notes.
This is the ID given to each separate note. The notes still share the same name.
Field FlagsRefers to the type of field and the different attributes it may have; for example, if a field
is flagged for encryption it says SEAL.

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