Create Custom Objects (Populating Your Custom Object)

10 min set-up time

Once you have set up your custom object, you are going to want to start creating columns within it.

Creating a Column

You can create a column by clicking the 'New' line via the top menu, or via the burger menu:

Upon clicking that a blank line will be created ready for you to enter. Explaining the columns that you should be considering during your setup:

• User Friendly Name - this is the name that you want the column to use within Datasets etc. so can contain spaces etc.
• Column Name - this column will auto populate with what was specified in the column mentioned above, spaces removed.
• Column Type - The column type starts to dictate the behaviour that the column will take on (explained further below).
• Enum Property Type - used with Custom Lists for Drop-downs.
• Is Part of Key - This indicates if the property forms part of the key for unique records in the table.
• Is Nullable - This is whether the column can be saved with a blank entry. (A quick example of this would be contact details, but you don't have all information for a 'complete' record).
• Is Label - This is .where the label for the record is held, and is what the UI will show if you were to link it.
• Is Date - if the column is a 'date' type.
• Auto Inc Start - the starting number for the next record. Will increase by one each time a record is created. (Obvious use case in the standard system is Transaction Number).
• Column Max Length - this is the maximum number of characters that can be used for NVarChar type.

Column Types

There are a number of column types which can be used, but generally most use cases can fall under one of the following:

If there is another column you are considering using speak to a member of the Implementation team to determine your use-case.