Extended Data Types (EDTs) [AX 2012]

Extended data types (EDTs) are user-defined types,

based on the primitive data types boolean, integer, real, string, and date, and
the composite type container.
You can also base EDTs on other EDTs.
An EDT is a primitive data type or container with a supplementary name and some
additional properties.
For example, you could create a new EDT called Name and base it on a string.
Thereafter you can use the new EDT in variable and field declarations in the de
velopment environment.