User-defined Fields

Area: Administration 

User Defined Fields is a very powerful functionality Fundamentals provide, most major setup tables like Vendor, Customer, and Fund allow the customer to add their own fields without any need for programming.

To add the User Defined Fields follow the steps mentioned below: 

1. Open Business Central, on the global search type "UDF Definition" and click on the related link. 

2. UDF Definition list page will open. 

3. Click on the New action button. A New UDF Definition card will open, fill in the Table ID for example to add a User Defined field in the Vendor table add table ID as 23. The table name and UDF No. will populate automatically. 

4. Select the Name of the field, for example Region, select the Type of the field, for example Text. 

Note: User can choose the type of the UDF field as Text, Option, Integer, Decimal, and Date. 

5. Once the Fields are added, it will show up, under the User Defined Fields group. 

6. Users can change the placement of the field using the Personalization of the page.