I always like to create a form -- call it, "The Parking Lot" or whatever.
Every custom field I add to any form in the system gets copied to the
parking lot. You can organize it by parent form with boxes or page fields,
etc and you can add the parking lot to the associated workflow. You could
also add an attachment field to store parent-form view-defs if you think
it's needed. That way, when the update/patch creams some custom work, at
least I still have an in-system backup I can copy/paste from. A bit kludgy,
but It's turned major headaches into minor ones before.

I don't know if this would scale to a heavily customized system, but there
are a bunch of techniques people use to CYA and this is just one.

-JDH

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Tommy Morris
<tommy.mor...@radioshack.com>wrote:

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> Just as an FYI, the Approval Central form is masked to overwrite not merge
> in the upgrade script. I just upgraded from 7.6p3 to 7.6.04sp1 and all of my
> custom fields are gone, granted they were just buttons but that’s not the
> point. And no its not that the fields were just removed from the view they
> are gone and so are their active links. ****
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