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So why are field techs so important? Let's take

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an example of an email address. Now you could format

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that as a plain text field and then users would

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enter so and so at something dot something and it

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would work in most cases. Now the great part

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about choosing a data type is that it provides automatic

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data validation. Someone couldn't enter in an illegal email address,

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because the, they wouldn't be able to save their record.

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Moreover, that functionality of that will later show up in

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an app so we will be able to tap that email

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address and it would open a mail-to link and their default

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email application. That's great functionality, so we want to make sure

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to use the data text that users expect for it. If

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it's a calendar, choose the date type. If it's email, choose

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email, etcetera. Now the best way to learn is by doing

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so let's go back with Samantha and Andy and do that.