Dave, Best practice would be to promote your custom development from base mode into custom objects in the best practice layer.
The best practice layer (the overlay) contains two types of things. Overlays which are things that are customizations (modifications) to things in the base layer. And, Custom objects which are objects that you have added to the definitions in base mode. Your objects are custom objects not supplied by others. This eliminates the confusion of switching modes between your custom definitions and making overlays of BMC definitions. You can move things from the base layer into the overlay. Note that the BPCU utility will automatically move things for you that are not BMC objects from the base layer to the best practice layer. You probably want to fix any overlays of your custom object first (eliminate them and make the update to the object itself, then move it. I hope this helps, Doug Mueller From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shellman, David Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 1:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Base Development vs. Best Practice Customization ** It seems we have gotten in a pickle with a few of our forms. Looking for some advice/help with Base Development vs. Best Practice Customization using Developer Studio on 7.6.04. We have a number of forms that were developed over the years. The forms and workflow were all developed in house creating our own internal applications. Some of these forms go all the way back to AR System version 3.0. Move forward to being on version 7.6.04 and we are modifying the forms and work flow with Developer Studio. For any changes we need to make to any AR System forms, we make sure that we're working in Best Practice Customization to make sure that Overlays are used for future upgrades. While working on the homegrown apps, we were using Base Development Mode. It seems that periodically, individuals would be working on the home grown forms in Best Practice Customization Mode. We are starting to see some of the forms showing up as Overlays, some of the views have fields that are shown in Base Development Mode and some fields shown in Best Practice Customization Mode. To say the least it has become a confusing mess. So I need to ask, what do others do with home grown forms? Work on them in Base Development Mode or do you do everything in Best Practice Customization Mode? Anyone know of a good way to either convert a mixed form back to Base Development or switch everything to Best Practice Customization? Thanks in advance for your opinions. Dave Dave Shellman +1 717 810 3687 tel +1 717 810 2124 fax [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> MS 161-043 PO Box 3608 Harrisburg, PA 17105-3608 [cid:[email protected]]<http://www.te.com/> [cid:[email protected]]<http://twitter.com/teconnectivity>[cid:[email protected]]<http://www.facebook.com/teconnectivity>[cid:[email protected]]<http://www.flickr.com/photos/teconnectivity/>[cid:[email protected]]<http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1591657>[cid:[email protected]]<http://www.youtube.com/teconnectivity> _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
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