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📖 Carolopedia › Closed value setGuide page
📖What it means
A field that only ever holds one of a small, fixed list of values — a status, a mode, a verdict. For such a field the list IS the definition, so the Data view records the values actually present rather than describing them in the abstract.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Free text
A closed set has a known list; free text may hold anything.
Not: Allowlist
A closed value set describes what a FIELD holds; an allowlist controls what may be DONE.
🗣️Also called
enumfixed setallowed values