In this section, we will discuss in detail the steps for creating object types. First you need to identify the object types needed for the application. For the center pane article, we need to have one object type, say cust_newsarticle
(short for custom news article) and the News Article template will be associated with this object type. In order to create a new object type, choose Insert | Object Type in the DocApp builder and specify the name cust_newsarticle
under Type name as shown in figure 11.3. The new object type shows up in the checked-out mode under the Object Types folder in the left tree pane in Application Builder.
Object type names are unique and globally accessible within the Docbase, so it is critical to adopt an intelligent naming convention for your custom object types to distinguish them from the thousands of existing objects in the Docbase. Additionally, when deploying the object types to...