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<ManualTopic ID="/baanerp/tt/onlinemanual/customer_defined_fields" xml:lang="en">
	<Header>
		<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Customer Defined Fields</Title>
		<Keyword ContextSensitive="No"><Level1>CDF</Level1>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<AimSection><Paragraph class="Default">The Customer Defined Fields (CDF) sessions in the ERP LN software make it possible to store additional information in tables without creating so-called customization. You can find these sessions in the Tools menu under Application Configuration.</Paragraph>
	</AimSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Customer Defined Field Sessions</SectionTitle>
		<List><ListIntro>The Customer Defined Field software consist of the following sessions:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>Parameters Customer Defined Field (ttadv4590m000).</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Customer Defined Fields (ttadv4191m000 and ttadv4591m000).</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Export Customer Defined Fields (ttadv4291m000).</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Import Customer Defined Fields (ttadv4292m000).</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Print Customer Defined Fields (ttadv4491m000).</ListItem>
		</List>
		<Paragraph class="Default">Online help is available per session.</Paragraph>
		<Note><SectionTitle>
                                 Note
                              </SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph class="Default">The CDF menu will only be added for sessions run in the WebTop.</Paragraph>
		</Note>
	</GeneralSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Configuration</SectionTitle>
		<Paragraph class="Default">To be able to enter the CDF menu structure, the user must be authorized to define Customer Defined Fields. Authorization is based on two conditions:</Paragraph>
		<List><ListItem>CDF must be enabled for this environment by setting the Parameters Customer Defined Field (ttadv4590m000) session.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>The Authorization Management System (AMS) setting must permit this user to run the session Customer Defined Fields (ttadv4591m000). This zoom session is only reachable through the menu session ttadv4191m000. <List><ListItem>When the user selects the Customer Defined Fields menu, the session ttadv4591m000 will be started for the current main table. The user can add CDFs for the table corresponding to the current session.</ListItem>
				</List>
			</ListItem>
		</List>
	</GeneralSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Maximum number of Customer Defined Fields</SectionTitle>
		<Paragraph class="Default">The number of Customer Defined Fields per table can not exceed 20. When a user tries to add the 21st Customer Defined Field to a table, an error message will occur.</Paragraph>
	</GeneralSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Restrictions</SectionTitle>
		<List><ListIntro>The following restrictions have been defined:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>Tools tables (package tt and tl) can not contain CDFs.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>WebTop conditional formatting is not supported for CDFs.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Easy SQL is not supported for CDFs.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>EDI is not supported for CDFs.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Except for reporting through the Reporting Studio and Reporting Viewer, reporting is not supported for CDFs.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>External integrations (for example, Infor Integration, EDI, Exchange, Office integration, SOA-based integration) do not support CDFs.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>CDFs are not supported in program scripts.</ListItem>
		</List>
	</GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>
