DataClasses are essentially the ORDA equivalents of tables. For instance, given an Employee table, there exists an Employee DataClass. For each DataClass, there are 3 associated classes:

DataClass Class

Entity Class

EntitySelection Class

To create these associated classes, one can create the classes from scratch by following a naming convention and adding “Class extends ____” at the start of their class method. For example, given the Employee DataClass:

DataClass Class: “Employee” & “Class extends DataClass”

Entity Class: “EmployeeEntity” & “Class extends Entity”

EntitySelection Class: “EmployeeSelection” & “Class extends EntitySelection”

Alternatively, the DataClass-associated classes can be generated by clicking the settings (cog) icon in Explorer > Methods, then checking “Show all data classes”.



Initially, the classes will be greyed out, until double-clicked to be created.



Once created, functions can be added to the class to create object methods for the DataClass itself, the DataClass’s entities, and the DataClass’s entity selections, respectively.