Creating composite fields?

[mikealderson]

I am building an app (using Fuji), and noticed that there are Composite fields in the Project and Demand applications.   When I attempted to create a new field in my app there is no Composite Type to select (I double checked on global and if doesn't exist there either).   Has anyone created their own composite field?

Composite fields look better on reports than 2 separate columns

[rob_pastore]

FWIW, Composite fields are not available in List V3, which comes out with Helsinki.

[john_duchock]

But since List v3 is such a resource hog, we are also looking for more composite field types in Helsinki...

[Chuck Tomasi · Accepted solution]

If you REALLY want to use composite fields, turn off the reference qualifier on the Type field and you can choose it. I don't recommend this lightly and support may not help you if you run in to problems.

1. Set your application to Global in the application picker
2. Set your update set to Default in the update set picker
3. Go to sys_dictionary and create a new field
4. Right click on the Type field label and choose Configure Dictionary
5. In the Reference specification section, change the reference qualifier to Simple.
6. Save the record.
7. You can now choose Composite in the type field of the sys_dictionary form.

[john_duchock]

awesome !   I will be playing with this in our sub-sub prod instances over the weekend !