n00b questions

I guess I am not following. I have created class files in the past through Studio to call those globals I referenced before. I am not familiar with the CRUD method, but a simple SET ^PERSON(1) = "MIKE|MALE|Developer" should be able to set your global, and when you do a GET to pull the information out of the global you can use PIECE to split the string apart by the | . Someone out here in the development community might have a better answer for you.

Class User.Person Extends %Persistent {

Property Name as %String;

Property Gender as %String;

Property JobTitle as %String;

}

set Person = ##class(User.Person).%New()

set Person.Name = "Mike"

set Person.Gender = "Male"

set Person.JobTitle = "Developer"

set status = Person.%Save()

This creates a new record in the Person table, but it's also in the User.PersonD global. Assuming this is the first record, you'll have an %Id() of 1

if you wanted to get the Person

set Person = ##class(User.Person).%OpenId(1)

if you wanted to delete:

set status = ##class(User.Person).%DeleteId(1)

Hope that helps.

P.S. - I wrote this in only a couple of minutes so there may be errors. Intersystems documentation can tell you more and I think there are examples in the Samples namespace.

To get an overview of the different features as well as hands-on access to try some of the features of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform you might want to look at the InterSystems IRIS QuickStarts

If you want to use pure MUMPS to transfer your data from global ^Person to persistent class- let's say  ^MyClass.Person, 

 so you can manipulate them like Object Scripts and using SQL you have to:

^PERSON(1) = "MIKE|MALE|DEVELOPER"

^PERSON(2) = "SCOTT|MALE|MASTER PROGRAMMER"

1.Create persistent class  ^MyClass.Person

Class MyClass.Person Extends %Persistent
{
Property Name As %String;
Property Gender As %String;
Property Role As %String;

}

2. Use routine something like this:

c1 s n=""
1 s n=$o(^Person(n)) q:n=""
s a=^Person(n) f i=1:1:3 s a(i)=$p(a,"|",i)
s ^MyClass.PersonD(n)=$LB("",a(1),a(2),a(3))
g 1

 or if you prefer a little be more clear

c2 s n=""
2 s n=$o(^Person(n)) q:n=""
s a=^Person(n) s Name=$p(a,"|",1),Gender=$p(a,"|",2),Role=$p(a,"|",3)
s ^MyClass.PersonD(n)=$LB("",Name,Gender,Role)
g 2

3.Of course If you have indices like properties in the persistent class, the things will be a little more complicated.

for example:

Property Name As %String;

Index NameIndex On Name;

you have to create and global  ^MyClass.PersonI  with structure like:

 ^MyClass.PersonI ("NameIndex"," "_Name,n)=""

c3 s n=""
3 s n=$o(^Person(n)) q:n=""
s a=^Person(n) s Name=$p(a,"|",1),Gender=$p(a,"|",2),Role=$p(a,"|",3)
s ^MyClass.PersonD(n)=$LB("",Name,Gender,Role)
s ^MyClass.PersonI("NameIndex"," "_Name,n)=""
g 3