A doubt about the design of Doctypes

[root13F]

@vazdan

Doctype and its JSON file

This JSON file is an exported format of the Database table that corresponds to your Doctype.

You don’t have to manually create any JSON files. System will create them.

If your doctype has Is Custom checked on creation then no JSON file will be made. It will stay just in the Database.

Now the important things:

• If you want to change something (add/rearrange/change property of field) in a default ERPNext doctype, ALWAYS use only Customize Form or the Customize Option.
• If you wish to create a new document, create it with Edit Doctype but keep those changes in a seperate app.

Also if you do changes via Customize Form and don’t wish to lose them: then follow advice as mentioned here:

Schema modification export (custom fields)

ERPNext provides Fixtures just for that. You can directly export fixtures in ERPnext app, but those will be lost when you update or will show up as conflicts. Hence you create a new app and export those changes to that app which will remain untouched by ERPNext update routines. https://frappe.io/docs/user/en/tutorial/new-app Step One : Create new app (say new-app) and initialize a new git repo for this app. Step Two : Find hooks.py file in your new-app folder Step Three : Mention which DocT…