Customization Projects

Form ID: (SM204505)

You use this form to do any of the following:

Add a new customization project, which is a set of changes and additional files that are used to modify the MYOB Advanced application
Open a customization project for editing in the Customization Project Editor
Validate a customization project or multiple projects (see Validation of a Customization Project for details)
Publish a customization project (or multiple projects) for a tenant or multiple tenants
Cancel the publication of customization projects
View the XML of the published customization project
Export a customization project as the deployment package
Import a customization project from an existing deployment package
Delete a customization project

Form Toolbar

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


Command	Description
DAC Attributes (Runtime Validation)	Determines whether there are any PXAttributeFamilyAttribute violations on a DAC field.
DAC Field Types (Runtime Validation)	Verifies that the data type of a DAC field matches with the field states generated at runtime.
Export	Exports the deployment package of the customization project—that is, the ZIP file with the project. The file has the same name as the exported customization project.
Import	Initiates the import of a previously exported deployment package from a ZIP file. When you click this button or command, the system opens the Open Package dialog box, which has the Choose File button and the Upload button to execute the operation.
Lookup Definitions (Runtime Validation)	Verifies that the DAC fields with lookup boxes defined for a segmented key properly handle foreign key segments by means of PXDimensionAttribute.
Publish	Initiates the process of publishing the selected customization projects (that is, those for which you have selected the check box in the Included column). When you click this command, the Compilation dialog box opens to display a log of information about the process. If both the project validation and the compilation of the modified website are successful, the system displays the Publish button in the dialog box; you click this button to finalize the publishing and to update the website.
Publish to Multiple Tenants	Opens the Publish to Multiple Tenants dialog box, which is used to select the tenants to which the selected customization projects are published and to configure the publishing options. (You select the check box in the Included column for all projects to be published before clicking this command.) After publication is complete, the selected tenants share the customization data that is specific to the opened tenant and stored exclusively in the database. See Customization Projects: Publication to a Multitenant Website or Publication of Customization Projects in a Multitenant Site for details.
Replace Highlighted Project Content	Initiates the import of a previously exported deployment package from a ZIP file to replace the content of the customization project that is currently selected in the table. This command opens the Open Package dialog box, which has the Choose File button and the Upload button.
Unpublish All	Removes the publication of all listed customization projects from the website. This command does not delete the projects themselves.
Validate Certification Status	Checks the certification status of all customization projects.
Validate Highlighted Project	Initiates the process of validating the selected customization projects (that is, those for which you have selected the Included check box). This command opens the Validation Results dialog box, which displays a log of information about the process.
Validate Multiple Projects	Opens the Choose Projects dialog box, which is used to select the customization projects for validation.
View Published	Displays the Published Customization page, which displays the merged content of the customization projects that are currently published. See Published Customization Page for details.

Publish to Multiple Tenants Dialog Box

By using this dialog box, you can publish customization projects to multiple tenants at once.


Element	Description
This dialog box includes a table with the following columns.
Selected	A check box that indicates (if selected) that the system will publish the selected customization projects on the tenant.
Tenant Name	The tenant name that is used on the site map.
ID	The tenant identifier, which was generated automatically by the system when the tenant was created.
Parent ID	The identifier of the parent tenant that was used to create the tenant in the MYOB Advanced Configuration Wizard.
This dialog box has the following elements below the table.
Apply Changes Only to Database (Skip Website Update)	A check box that indicates (if selected) that the system applies to the selected tenants only the database changes introduced by the selected customization packages. If you have published all the selected customization projects in the website for a tenant, you do not need to update website files while publishing to the other tenants. You can apply only the database changes. For details, see Customization Projects: Publication to a Multitenant Website.
Execute All Database Scripts (Including Previously Executed)	A check box that indicates (if selected) that the system cleans all the information about previously executed scripts of the customization project and executes them once more while publishing the selected projects. If you have published all the selected customization projects in the website for a tenant, you do not need to run the executed scripts once again while publishing the projects to the other tenants. The system will run only any scripts that were not executed earlier. For details, see Customization Projects: General Information.
This dialog box has the following buttons.
OK	Closes the dialog box and initiates the process of publishing the selected projects to each tenant selected in the table of the dialog box. As a result, the published customization content is saved in the database for each selected tenant.
Cancel	Closes the dialog box without any changes.

Table

This table lists all the customization projects that have been created for the instance of MYOB Advanced. The columns of the table are described below.


Column	Description
Included	An unlabeled check box that indicates (if selected) that the system will execute the selected command for the project in this row.
Published	A check box that indicates (if selected) that the project is published.
Project Name	The unique name of the project. The project name is also a link you can click to open the project in the Customization Project Editor, which is used to configure the project changeset for the website.
Level	A number representing the level that is used to resolve any conflicts that arise if multiple modifications of the same items of the website are merged. If you leave this box empty, the default value is 0. Tip: Use higher values for projects that contain more important changes.
Screen Names	A system-generated list of the identifiers of the screens that have been modified in the project.
Description	The description of the customization project, which may be a short explanation of the changes.
Certification Status	The certification status of each uploaded customization project. A customization project can have one of the following statuses: Certified: The project has been imported into the MYOB Advanced instance and is available in the database with the certified customization projects. Not Certified: The project has been imported into the MYOB Advanced instance and is not available in the database with the certified customization projects. Not Verified: The project has been manually modified or created in the current MYOB Advanced instance. Not Certified for Current Version: The project has been imported into the MYOB Advanced instance and is available in the database with the certified customization projects, but the major version it has been certified for is not the same as the major version of the current MYOB Advanced instance.
Initials	The project prefixes assigned to the customization project provided by MYOB or ISV partners.
Created By	The name of the user who created the project.
Last Modified On	The date when the project was modified most recently.

Published Customization Page

The Published Customization page of the form shows the merged XML code of the customization projects that are currently published. You open this page by clicking View Published on the More menu.

On the Published Customization page, you can do the following:

View the code
Download the deployment package that contains the code
Upload the deployment package as a ZIP file

The Published Customization page includes a toolbar and a text area for viewing XML code. The text area displays the XML content of a merged customization project. This area is not used for editing the XML code.

The toolbar buttons are listed below.


Button	Description
Save to Database	Is not available at this time.
Download Package	Downloads the Customization.zip file, which has the full content of the merged customization project. You can use this file as a joint deployment package to work with the customization project or to publish the final customization on the target website.
Upload Package	Initiates the upload of a deployment package to MYOB Advanced and makes XML code available in the text area for viewing.
Choose File	Opens the Open dialog box, in which you select the deployment package file to be uploaded.