Working with attributes and getting to know data types
In this section, you will get to know attribute and data types. You will also add a few attributes to the entity created in the previous section. You are now preparing your app to hold data you can later retrieve and manipulate. It is useful to understand how your app will store data. This data will be used in microflows in your app and also in pages to build user interfaces.
Attributes are pieces of information that describe an entity. An entity can have many attributes that describe various aspects of it. The member entity could have demographic information about the member, such as their name and location, or other important information pertaining to their membership, such as its status and start and end dates. Whether you come from the developer world or the business world, you can relate attribute types to the data types of SQL columns or Excel cells, respectively. This concept is explained further in this section.