Custom Objects

As well as standard Draft objects such as Forms and Folders it is also possible to define custom object types.

Custom objects can have the following attributes set:

Title

Name	The name of the custom object, e.g. "Report Specification" it can be up to 100 characters. [1]
Plural Name	The plural name for more than one of the custom object, e.g. "Report Specifications". [1]
Parent Object	If this Object is a child of another object (e.g. Field is a child of Form) then this shows the parent object. [2]
External Name	The name of the Excel sheet to be used for import/export of this data in a Draft Export. [3]
Icon	An identifier for an icon taken from the FontAwesome 4.7 icon list
Display Order	Controls the order that custom objects are shown at the draft level
Display	Controls whether this object is shown in the Draft counts summary and in breadcrumb listings.
Identifier Separator	When an instance of a custom object is made, it will be given an identifier (a name) based on the set of custom properties which contribute to the identifier. This setting determines how multiple values are concatenated to create that identifier. If the values are name and version you could have an identifier of "MyName | MyVersion" if the separator is " | " and "MyName/MyVersion" if the separator is "/".
Description	A description of the object. Use this to document the intended use for objects of this type.

Footnotes

[1] (1,2)

Custom Object names and plural-names must be unique in a URL and cannot use any of the standard object names "Form", "Edit Check", "Matrix", "Test Case" etc...

[2]

Parent-child relationships can only be 1 level deep and can only link to other custom objects. You cannot link an object definition to another object definition which is itself a child of another object.

[3]

External name values must unique and valid for Excel sheet names. They can be a maximum of 31 characters long, cannot start or end with an apostrophe ('), cannot be named "History" which Excel reserves for itself and cannot contain any of the characters: / \ ? * : [ ]