What happens if I change the data type of a field?

Although Athento allows it, in general, in a production environment, it is not advisable to change the type of a field that could already have documents that have taken value in that field and we would be altering its internal value in the database.

Understanding the above point, there is a change that entails less risk:

• Numeric to Text and vice versa: In general this change should not present any problems as long as the existing values for Text are composed entirely of numbers.

It would be necessary to take into account operations or trays that could be based on a management of the value itself (in case it is something numeric for example a greater or less than) or of the characters themselves (in case it is a text type field for example looking for a certain string of characters to begin) to reformulate them if necessary.