Iron Speed Designer automatically creates names for several aspects of your application. A Naming Policy algorithm is applied in order to make your application more human-readable, saving you the time of hand-editing potentially hundreds of field labels and other bits of text used in your application.
A naming policy algorithm is used to create names for:
Field labels. Field labels are derived from the field names in your database schema.
Menu names. Menu names are derived from the table names in your database schema.
Page and panel titles. Page and panel titles are derived from table names in your database schema.
The naming policy algorithm is used by the Application Wizard and the Add Page facilities when creating pages based on your database schema.
Menu names, page titles, and panel titles apply the algorithm's results at the time they are created.
Field labels apply the algorithm:
At the time they are created.
When a new version of Iron Speed Designer is installed and migrates the application to the new version.
When scanning and accepting changes in your database schema.
Thus, a field label's text may change when upgrading to a new version of Iron Speed Designer, but menu and page / dialog titles do not.
Each word is capitalized, e.g.:
MY NAME --> My Name
MY_NAME --> My Name
my name --> My Name
In general, underscores and other non-alphanumeric characters are replaced with spaces. Multiple adjacent spaces are consolidated into one space.
My_Ugly ! _field_Name --> My Ugly Field Name
Common abbreviations are expanded by consulting a small built-in dictionary:
Addr --> Address
Cats & Dogs --> Cats And Dogs
Note: These abbreviation expansions are made only for the English language.
Spaces are automatically added between word breaks. In general, word breaks are indicated by spaces, underscores, and case changes:
my name --> My Name
MY_NAME --> My Name
MyName --> My Name
Note: If there are no separators between words, Iron Speed Designer works best when the initial letter is uppercase, e.g. "MyName". If the initial letter is lowercase, e.g. "myName", then Iron Speed Designer may interpret the first word as a dispensable prefix.
The case of abbreviations is typically preserved:
MyDotNETApplication --> My Dot NET Application
FM-2000 --> FM-2000
Concatenated words are separated by consulting a small built-in dictionary. (This is useful for Oracle databases.)
CATEGORYID --> Category ID
Prefixes are typically removed:
tblWorldWideCustomers --> World Wide Customers
MST_CUSTOMER_LIST --> Customer List
Prefix removal is done by case-sensitivity, word separator character, vowel analysis, and a small dictionary of common one, two and three letter words.