Development guidelines for Tables

Table properties

Always define Primary and Cluster indexes.
Always define Table group property based on table contents.

Fields

Visible field should always be the part of field group (at least one)

Field data type

Always set field data type as EDT or Base enum.
For field which is Foreing Key, use same data type, as used in Primary key of related table.
For RecId and TableId data stored in the field, use Extended Data Types RefRecId and RefTableId respectively.

Renaming the keys

New customization should not affect to standard renaming primary key functionality. With adding new fields, that are Foreign Keys, need to make sure that there is proper relation with Primary Key.

Relations

Indexes

Maximum column count in customized index is limited to 3 (three). If more needed, BP Rule exception should be introduced and checked by Code Reviewer or Technical Architect afterwards. TODO - Make BP with limiting index field count

Mandatory fields

Each mandatory field should be displayed on first or second tab of the form. Usually, it belongs to Overview or General tab of the form.
If target environment already has some data in the table, mandatory fields should be deployed into that environment with two steps:
- Deploy field as non-mandatory into target environment. Run Job to fill all existing data.
- Deploy field as mandatory.
It is prohibited to add mandatory fields into standard tables. If needed, you should follow these steps:
- Add field to table-extention and to have (or to add) the switch, enabling checking for filling the field value.
- Add check for field validation on validateWrite() with mandatory switch, enabling additional validation.

Example:

Table Extensions\PurchTable.Extension_PRJ\Fields\VendorReferenceTypeId_PRJ (added)
Table Extensions\VendGroup.Extension_PRJ\Fields\CheckVendorReference_PRJ (added)

...

[ExtensionOf(tableStr(PurchTable))]
final class PurchTable_PRJ_Extension (added)
{
    public boolean validateWrite()
    {
        boolean ok = next validateWrite();
    
        if (! this.VendorReferenceTypeId_PRJ &&
            VendGroup::find(this.VendGroup).CheckVendorReference_PRJ)
        {
            ok = checkFailed(strFmt("@SYS84378", fieldPName(PurchTable, VendorReferenceTypeId_PRJ)));
        }
    
        return ok;
}

Mandatory data entities

For tables with following table groups it is mandatory to create flat data entity with all table fields:

Group
Main
Miscellaneous
Reference
Worksheet
Worksheet header
Worksheet line

Such data entity should be named with suffix FlatEntity_PRJ and be available in Data Management framework (DataManagementEnabled=Yes) and Excel plug-in via OData (IsPublic=Yes)