MapInfo MIF/MID User Attributes

The name of the table to be written.

char

Character fields store fixed-length strings.

• Width controls the maximum number of characters that can be stored by the field. No padding is required for strings shorter than this width.

date

Date fields store dates as character strings with the format YYYYMMDD.

datetime

Datetime fields store dates as character strings with the format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.FFF.

See Standard FME Date/Time Format.

decimal

Decimal fields store single and double precision floating point values.

• Width is the total number of characters allocated to the field, including the decimal point.
• Precision controls the precision of the data and is the number of digits to the right of the decimal.

float

Float fields store floating point values. There is no ability to specify the precision and width of the field.

integer

Integer fields store 32 bit signed integers.

logical

Logical fields store TRUE/FALSE data. Data read or written from and to such fields must always have a value of either true or false.

smallint

Small integer fields store 16 bit signed integers and therefore have a range of -32767 to +32767.

time

Time fields store times as character strings with the format HHMMSS.FFF.