Working with user-defined fields

You can add your own user fields to data sources. For example, you can create your own edit boxes, numerical fields and check boxes. This might be useful if you are integrating Asta Powerproject with other systems. For example, you might have a stock control system and want part numbers from the stock control system to be stored in your project with resource properties. Or you might want to provide additional information in your project so that it can be referenced by the stock control system. You specify the Asta Powerproject object to which a user field relates by associating each field with an object type. For example, if you want to enter information relating to tasks into a user-defined field, you associate it with the Task object type.

You can use user-defined fields to enable users to link objects in their projects, for example tasks and resources, to external documents. You do this by creating 'URL'-type user-defined fields. Users can then enter hyperlinks to external documents, or to webpages on the internet or an intranet, into these fields in their projects.

You use Server Admin to create user fields for projects that are stored in a data source on an Enterprise server. You can also create user fields for local projects (.PP files). For this you use the User Field Manager in the Asta Powerproject client (refer to the Asta Powerproject Help for further details).