Verify Title Masks

Title masks are used to construct a composite title for a record based on data fields in the record. For many record types, they will just render the title field, or the title with some additional contextual information. For bibliographic records they provide a shortened bibliographic style entry.

This option scans the database for invalid (ill formed) title masks. The result of the scan shows all valid and invalid title masks and the record type they were created in. You can then manually modify any invalid title masks in the record structure.

Note. To rebuild title masks, see Rebuild Record Titles.

To check title masks

1. Select Utilities | Verify Title Masks to run the scan (the database is not modified).

The result of the scan shows the mask for each record type, marked as either:

• Valid. The mask is correctly constructed.
• Invalid. The mask is incorrectly constructed.

For example:

2. If the title mask is marked 'invalid', edit the Record Type directly (see Define New Record Type | Title Masks).

Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: Easily create Help documents