Types of Items in a Customization Project

When you customize an instance of MYOB Acumatica by using the Customization Project Editor, the platform stores all items of a customization project as records in the CustObject table of the database. Each record in this table contains the data of an item, including the XML code of the item in a specific field. When you add an item to the customization project, the platform adds the new record to the table, creates the XML code of the item, and stores the code within the Content field of the record.

XML Code of the Items

Different item types have XML code that is structured differently. For example, if you create the UsrPersonalID bound custom field in the CR.Contact DAC (which is mapped to the SOOrder table) and the control for the field on the Customers (AR303000) form, the customization project might contain the following new objects:

• An item with the following XML code to add the column to the DB table.

  <Table TableName="Contact">
    <Column TableName="Contact" ColumnName="UsrPersonalID" ColumnType="string" 
            AllowNull="True" MaxLength="15" DecimalPrecision="2"
            DecimalLength="15" IsNewColumn="True" IsUnicode="True" />
  </Table>

• An item with the following XML code to add the field to the DAC.

  <DAC type="PX.Objects.CR.Contact">
    <Field FieldName="UsrPersonalID" TypeName="string" MapDbTable="Contact" 
           TextAttributes="#CDATA" StorageName="AddColumn">
      <CDATA name="TextAttributes">
      <![CDATA[[PXDBString(15)][PXUIField(DisplayName="Personal ID")]]]></CDATA>
    </Field>
  </DAC>

• An item with the following XML code to add the control to the form.

  <Page path="~/pages/ar/ar303000.aspx" ControlId="5"
        pageSource="...binary content of the page...">
    <PXFormView ID="DefContact" ParentId="phG_tab_Items#0_DefContact"
                TypeFullName="PX.Web.UI.PXFormView">
      <Children Key="Template">
        <AddItem>
          <PXTextEdit TypeFullName="PX.Web.UI.PXTextEdit">
            <Prop Key="Virtual:ApplyStylesheetSkin" />
            <Prop Key="ID" Value="CstPXTextEdit2" />
            <Prop Key="DataField" Value="UsrPersonalID" />
            <Prop Key="CommitChanges" Value="True" />
          </PXTextEdit>
        </AddItem>
      </Children>
    </PXFormView>
  </Page>

Note that the items in these code blocks differ by type (Table, DAC, and Page) and structure.

Item Types Within a Customization Project

All the possible types of items in a customization project are summarized in the following table. The value in the Can Be Unpublished column identifies whether the changes introduced by the item type are reversed when you unpublish the customization project. For details on which changes are reversed, see Project Unpublishing: General Information.