Also, now with the advent of Overlays, I might still use my parking lot -- at least until I gain some confidence with overlays. BMC may say overlays are the safest way to go. My initial reaction is, "I'm sure it is. You go first & I'll hide & watch..."
-JDH On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM, JD Hood <[email protected]> wrote: > I always like to create a form -- call it, "The Parking Lot" or whatever. > Every custom field I add to any form in the system gets copied to the > parking lot. You can organize it by parent form with boxes or page fields, > etc and you can add the parking lot to the associated workflow. You could > also add an attachment field to store parent-form view-defs if you think > it's needed. That way, when the update/patch creams some custom work, at > least I still have an in-system backup I can copy/paste from. A bit kludgy, > but It's turned major headaches into minor ones before. > > I don't know if this would scale to a heavily customized system, but there > are a bunch of techniques people use to CYA and this is just one. > > -JDH > > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Tommy Morris < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> ** >> >> Just as an FYI, the Approval Central form is masked to overwrite not merge >> in the upgrade script. I just upgraded from 7.6p3 to 7.6.04sp1 and all of my >> custom fields are gone, granted they were just buttons but that’s not the >> point. And no its not that the fields were just removed from the view they >> are gone and so are their active links. **** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
