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title: "General Standards"
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# General Standards

## General Standards

**Proper Use of Core and Custom Schema Definitions**

- Do not store values in a core schema that doesn’t describe the data.  For example, don’t store a job code value in the physicalDeliveryOfficeName attribute.

**Storing Employee and Student IDs**

- Use the employeeID attribute for storing employee IDs and student IDs.
- If there is a chance of overlap, add a prefix of **E** for employees or **S** for students.  Store the *original* value in the employeeNumber attribute.  For example, an employee with an employee ID of **1234** would have **employeeID=E1234** and **employeeNumber=1234**.

**Use of Quotations**

- Always use double quotes (“) when referring to strings

**Referring to Record Field Values**

- Always refer to record fields using **record[‘field’]** syntax.  (i.e. refrain from using record.field)
- Using consistent syntax helps everyone understand the usage.
  - record[‘givenName’].toUpperCase()  <-- standard
  - record.givenName.toUpperCase()  <-- not standard
- record[‘givenName’].toUpperCase()  <-- standard
- record.givenName.toUpperCase()  <-- not standard