Reduce your technical debt–embrace User Defined Objects

I’ve done a number of posts on this topic, but we all should be looking toward configuration not code to personalise our JD Edwards environment.  Training for end users and developers must be on the new UDO’s that allow us to modify and personalise our environments based upon config.

For instance, Personalize forms allow you to:

• Modify field labels
• Hide, resize, and reposition fields and controls
• Grid guidelines to help with alignment when moving field (TR 9.2.1.2 and up)
• Ability to move controls using arrow keys for further refining the alignment (TR 9.2.1.2 and up)
• Ability to rename tab pages and group boxes (TR 9.2.1.2 and up)
• Ability to edit the tab sequence (TR 9.2.1.2 and up)
• Cut and paste controls from one tab page to another (TR9.2.1.2 and up)
• Ability to mark a field as required (TR9.2.1.2 and up)
• Personalization of Menu Exits (TR 9.2.2.4 and up)
• Use the personalize exits link to personalize the Form, Row and Report exits (TR 9.2.2.4 and up)

That is a shed load of functionality and would allow you to retire modifications.

The new form extensions, which allow your to do the following changes

1. Adding Business view Columns to the header or the grid of a form.
2. Remove Business view Columns from a header of grid of a form.
3. Resize Form Header and Grid Areas
4. Resize Business view columns
5. Repositioning Business View Columns
6. Setting filter criteria

Each one of these UDO’s (and security) can be used to lower your technical debt and bring you closer to Continuous Delivery for your users.

Codes	Description 01
CAFE1	Composite App Framework
COMPOSITE	Composite Page
DATABROWSE	Data Browser
E1PAGE	EnterpriseOne Pages
FORMAT	Grid Format
FORMEXTNS	Form Extensions
IMAGE	Image
NTF	Notification
ONEVIEW	One View Reports
ORCH	Orchestrations
PERSFORM	Personal Forms
QUERY	Query
RECORDER	Process Recorder
RULE	Rule
SCHEDULE	Schedule
SEARCH	EnterpriseOne Search
SREQ	Service Requests
TASKSEARCH	Task Search
WATCHLIST	One View Watchlist
WLST	Whitelist
XREF	Cross Reference

My recommendations to you is to understand all of these UDO’s intimately so that if you are retrofitting or thinking about modifications – you can implement them much more efficiently and allow the business to consume change at a great pace.