Am I able to add a new, custom field to a base table that is also a key field? The specific example I have is that I want to add a UsrStepNbr field to the PMTask table which will be a key field.
Short answer - No
Long answer - I attempted this a few years back with a customization project and when it did not work I was informed by Acumatica engineering it was not a use case that had been internally defined nor would it be supported in the future.
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Acumatica course I190 shows how to create custom fields. I followed the tutorial and created two custom fields for Stock Items.
Acumatica course I300 has an example of exporting StockItems, procedure RetrievalOfDelta.
However, call soapClient.GetList(stockItemsToBeFound) does not return the CustomFields, even though I changed ReturnBehavior = ReturnBehavior.All, and can see values of all other fields.
How to include the CustomFields to be returned by GetList?
Thank you.
For guidelines on broad general topics like API Custom Fields refer to documentation.
You need to extend the default endpoint and extend the entity (stock item).
Reference:
https://help-2020r1.acumatica.com/Help?ScreenId=ShowWiki&pageid=c450492e-06fe-4563-95c3-efa76975415b
Use populate action to add custom fields to the extended entity.
Reference:
https://help-2020r1.acumatica.com/Help?ScreenId=ShowWiki&pageid=bd0d8a36-b00b-44c8-bdcd-b2b4e4c86fd0
I have a custom table in SQL Server called AnimalBreed and maintenance page.
I wish to add User Defined Field support via the KvExt approach instead of
traditional practices involving either CSAnswers or a CacheExtension of the
DAC and underlying "Usr" fields.
Is this possible?
Can it be done for line-level (child) DACs, such as
existing INLocation and INLocationKvExt?
Thanks!
UPDATE:
It appears the feature needs at least:
ensure your table has the NoteID column as uniqueidentifier datatype and the DAC has the corresponding field: Guid? NoteID and [PXNote()] attribute.
In the ASPX, if not ListView, add the following to the PXDataSource tag:
EnableAttributes="true"
By making these changes, I can Manage User Defined Fields, choose Attributes to include, and I can store values to the KvExt table.
I am using Version = 19.205.0023
Sales Order page observation: if I add two UDFs on SO Order Entry page, one is combobox and one is checkbox, setting their values saves just fine, but then updating the combobox and save leads to loss of the checkbox (from true to false), unless you uncheck and recheck prior to the save. Is this a bug?
Maybe technically possible but definitely not recommended to use undocumented feature like KvExt.
If you need to deploy User Defined Fields on a page which already contains them. Configure them manually and then add them in a customization package in the user defined fields section for deployment as described here:
https://help-2019r2.acumatica.com/Help?ScreenId=ShowWiki&pageid=e01f29d3-b6b1-40f4-a2d1-45c9d01bdde3
Example:
here's a really quick question...
Is there a type of Sitecore Editor control that I can use in the Template Builder to enable the product owners to add a free collection of strings in the CMS Editor?
I know that I can add a simple data object that has a single string field, add a number of these data objects and then add a Multilist to the Editor with that group of data objects as the Source, but that would mean that the product owners would have to add all of their strings as these data objects and then select them from the Multilist.
I'm trying to make it simpler for them, but I can't seem to find a Sitecore Editor control that enables them to enter a collection of strings directly in the Editor... is there one?
The short answer is no, there is no way to do this in Sitecore.
All hope is not lost, however. You can always create your own field type for something like this, but doing so does require a significant level of effort.
Is this possible to set or override the internalid of a custom record type ?
The internalid is self generated, but I want to try to set inernalid value from a cvs field.
I do not believe you can override the internalid of any record instance, even a custom one. You can, however, use the externalid field that I believe every record has if you want to specify a "secondary" identifier for the record.
You cannot override the internal ID of a record. As mentioned in a previous response to your question, you can (and should) set the external ID field on the NetSuite records to equal the primary key of the data being imported.
On future imports that update NetSuite data, you simply map the key field of the imported data to the external ID field in NetSuite. You can ignore the internal ID field on those future imports, as Netsuite will match up the records based upon the external ID.
This is the proper way to do this - I've seen tons of situations where people did not understand the external ID concept, and created huge, long term maintenance issues by not following this simple solution.
OK. Given your feedback, why not create another custom field on the customer record that references the lookup value in the custom record?
The field type should be the same as the field type of the lookup value, with "store value" checkbox unchecked. On the Sourcing and Filtering tab, you specify the custom record type and field to reference. Think of it as a SQL join of sorts between the customer record and custom record.
Then, you should be able to do what you want with 2 getCurrentAttribute tags:
<%= getcurrentattribute('cusomter', 'custentity_mappingid')%>
<%= getcurrentattribute('cusomter', 'custentity_mappingvalue')%>
BTW, your custom field internal IDs look a little odd. They should start with 'custentity', and 'custrecord', respectively. My code above reflects what you'd normally expect from NetSuite.
You can set ExternalId and if you want to get record then you can use callGetRecordByExternalId .
public ReadResponse callGetRecordByExternalId(String externalId, RecordType recordType) throws RemoteException {
return this.callGetRecord(Utils.createRecordRefWithExternalId(externalId, recordType));
}
How do you create a lookup column to a Document Library that uses the 'Name' of the document as the lookup value?
I found a blog post that recommends adding another custom field like "FileName" and then using a item reciever to populate the custom field with the value from the Name field but that seems cheesy.
Link to the blog in case people are interested:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pranab/archive/2008/01/08/sharepoint-2007-moss-wss-issue-with-lookup-column-to-doc-lib-name-field.aspx
I've got a bunch of custom document content types that I dont want to clutter with a work around that should really work anyway.
I created a one step workflow to set the title from the name, fired on modify and created. Seems to work and took seconds to create.
One way you can do this (although not the easiest way) is by creating a custom field type that extends the SPFieldLookup class. SharePoint's field editor for Lookup fields purposefully hides any columns types that aren't supported by Lookup fields, but you can create a field editor for your custom field type that shows them.
However, I have created a Lookup column that points to a Name column in a Document Library before, and it probably doesn't work like you'd expect. While the value stored in the lookup column is valid, it doesn't show up right in List view or on the View Properties form.
The solution you posted may actually be the best way to handle this. Lookup fields require some kludges if you want to handle more complex scenarios, but that's because they're not meant to provide the same functionality as a foreign key relationship in a database.
Coding in any form always scares me. So Here's what I did: I simply renamed the Stupid "Title" Field to something else, say "Keywords", since you cant do anything with that field: cant even make it mandatory.
Then I created another Single line field called "Title" and used this field for the Lookups
Well there is a simple solution to that and in might work in some case.
In the nutshell if you make the Title field Mandatory, this will force the user to enter a title. In that manner we can use title field as a lookup field.
Now How to do that?
One you are done create a document library go to the library setting. Select Advance Setting and Select Yes for the option "Allow management of content types?".
Then go back to the Library setting and Under content types select the "Document" Content type. THen Select Title Column and then Select "Required (Must contain information)" and say OK.
Now try uploading a document to this document library. You will see Title field in the form.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Vaqar
You have to add the field as XML with the ShowField as 'FileLeafRef'
var XmlFieldDefinition = "<Field DisplayName='myLookupColumn' Type='LookupMulti' StaticName='myLookupColumn' Name='myLookupColumn' Required='FALSE' List='THE LOOKUP ID HERE' WebId='THE WEB ID HERE' UnlimitedLengthInDocumentLibrary='TRUE' Mult='TRUE' Sortable='FALSE' ShowField='FileLeafRef' />"
Field fld = fieldCollection.AddFieldAsXml(XmlFieldDefinition, true, AddFieldOptions.DefaultValue);
ClientContext.Load(fld);
ClientContext.ExecuteQuery();