User-Defined Fields

Page ID: (AU230000)

On this page, you manage the user-defined fields in the customization project.

Any user-defined fields you add on this page are added to the current customization project with all other items.

Tip: You open the User-Defined Fields page by clicking User-Defined Fields in the navigation pane of the Customization Project Editor.

Page Toolbar and More Menu

The page toolbar includes standard buttons and page-specific buttons and commands. For the list of standard buttons, see Page Toolbar. The page-specific commands can be shown as buttons on the page toolbar, as commands on the More menu, or in both places. These commands are listed in the following table in alphabetical order.

Command Description
Manage User-Defined Fields

Opens the Attributes (CS205000) form in a new browser tab so that you can view and change, if needed, the settings of the attributes used for user-defined fields.

Reload from Database

Updates the properties of user-defined fields in the customization project if these fields have been modified on the Attributes (CS205000) form.

Table 1. Add User-Defined Fields Dialog BoxThis dialog box opens when you click Add New Record on the page toolbar. The dialog box contains the following elements.

The table toolbar includes only standard buttons. For the list of standard buttons, see Table Toolbar.

Element Description
Included

A check box that indicates (if selected) that the user-defined field in this row will be added to the customization project.

Attribute ID

The attribute that corresponds to the user-defined field.

Description

The description of the user-defined field.

This dialog box has the following buttons.

Save

Adds the selected user-defined fields to the table on the page and closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Closes the dialog box without adding any fields.

Table 2. Edit Attribute Dialog BoxThis dialog box opens when you click Edit on the page toolbar, or when you click the link with the ID of a user-defined field in the Attribute ID column on the page. In the dialog box, you select the IDs of the forms on which the field should appear after you publish the customization project. You can see only the IDs of the screens for which the user-defined field was added in your MYOB Acumatica instance. To add a user-defined field to a form, click Customization > Manage User-Defined Fields on the title bar of the MYOB Acumatica form, and add the field.
Element Description

The table toolbar includes only standard buttons. For the list of standard buttons, see Table Toolbar.

The table has the following columns.

Included

A check box that indicates (if selected) that the user-defined field will be available on the form with the ID specified in the Screen ID column after you publish the customization project.

Screen ID

The ID of the form on which the user-defined field has been added in your MYOB Acumatica instance.

This dialog box has the following buttons.
Save

Adds to the customization project the IDs of the forms for which the user-defined field should be added, and closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Closes the dialog box without any changes.

Table

This table contains the list of user-defined fields that you have added to the customization project and the basic settings of each of them. When you click the link in the Attribute ID column, the Edit Attribute dialog box is opened. The columns of the table are described below.

Column Description
Attribute ID

The name of the business event in the customization project.

Description

The description of the business event.

Screen ID

The IDs of the forms on which the user-defined field will be available after you publish the customization project.

Last Modified By

The name of the user who last modified the business event in the customization project.

Last Modified On

The date when the business event was last modified in the customization project.