Hi,
> When you add a new object (custom) using best practice mode [BP] it is
> automatically created as custom
> BPCU is only used
> As a thumb rule do not mix modes
> What that means is as follows?
> You added 3 custom fields using best practice mode. These will only be
> seen or will be available in best practice mode
> These will not be seen when you are in base development mode
> In your example if I understand correctly, the fields that you have added
> to Email messages form are added thro the BP mode and therefore the table
> that you are trying to add should be a custom field
The table was added to another form that I created in Base Development. It
is not marked as "custom". I could change it to "overlay", but that would
prevent me from continue development in base-mode, and I will need to move
all of my "base"-objects to "overlay".
What I would like, is to be able to mark all of my (own) base-form as
"custom", and remove it from the Base-development altogether.
> Your question 2 below is already answered on one of the threads titled
> "Overlay and custom in 7.6.4".
> Copying here for immediate perusal:
> If you are in Best Practice View in Developer studio then you cannot
> convert a base (unmodified) object to a custom object with a right context
> menu option. You can only convert it into an overlay using menu option
> convert to overlay But if you had had to convert the base to custom you
> could easily open the object in Best practice mode and use save as, the
> object will be created as custom
> You can always convert a custom object to a base object in dev studio
> using menu option viz., convert to base
I saw this, but Save-as would require a new name. And if it is a form,
actl-in-guide or fliter-in-guide, the relationships will be lost.
> Can you "merge" my overlay customizations into the Base Development
> mode, and revert the changes from overlay to base?
> -> Why would you ever need to merge changes from overlay objects to base
> objects?
I can see a very good reason:
1. I have an application that I have developed myself
2. I want to add new features to the application in best-practice-mode, to
make it easy to revert any changes.
3. When I have tested everything, I want to merge it together, to give me
a new version of my base application.
I have tried this, and it seems to work fine. This is what I did:
A. Export all custom/best practice objects to a def-file
B. Remove the base-objects where ObjProp OVERLAY_PROPERTY=OVERLAID
C. Rename objects named "__o"
D. Remove ObjProp OVERLAY_PROPERTY (90015) and OVERLAY_GROUP (90016) from
all objects.
E. Delete customized objects and overlays in Best Practice Customization
F. Import the new def in Base Development
Anyone interested in a utility to do this? I have named the test-program
RRR|DefMergeBPC. Any dangers?
Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se
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>
>
> Abhijeet
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Danny Kellett
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 4:25 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Mixing best-practice and base-development in 7.6.04...
>
> I have done it manually.
>
> Create overlays in this order
>
> Form > View > Field
>
> Regards
> Danny
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky
> Sent: 28 March 2011 11:24
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Mixing best-practice and base-development in 7.6.04...
>
> Hi,
>
> I thought to check out the overlay-features.
>
> I wanted to add three fields to AR System Email Messages, and it worked.
>
> Then I wanted to create table in one of my custom forms that searched AR
> System Email Messages based these fields. This did NOT work out.
>
> 1. Do I really have to convert everything with the famous BPCU (Best
> Prectice Conversion Utility) before go on with this?
>
> 2. Is there an easy way to convert one form to Custom within Developer
> Studio?
>
> 4. Can you "merge" my overlay customizations into the Base Development
> mode, and revert the changes from overlay to base?
>
> 5. Any other advice?
>
> Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se
>
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